Tasmanian cave spider

English

Noun

Tasmanian cave spider (plural Tasmanian cave spiders)

1. A species of large-clawed spider, Hickmania troglodytes, found in Tasmania.
   • 2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 25:

     Quilty told me that some of the flora I may have noticed in the Andes were to be found elsewhere only in Tasmania […] and that insects like the Tasmanian cave spider were the sole family known outside Chile.