"My initial reaction was 'Oh God, it's so big, so scary'."
University student Christina Adams did not expect to find a spider in her pitfall trap, and she certainly did not expect it to be a new species.
Ms Adams found the spider at Duckhole Rivulet Saltmarsh near Richmond, east of Hobart.
She was collecting insects for her honours project but did not expect to catch spiders in the traps as they can usually crawl out.
"I initially thought it was a wolf spider," she told Tahlea Aualiitia on 936 ABC Hobart.
"I took a picture and put the picture on the Tasmanian insect page on Facebook and a guy called John Douglas, he's a well-known spider person, he said it wasn't a wolf spider and said it was a new species."-Read More
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