wesselpretorius's Identifications

Spider body approx 7mm, legs approx 45mm from tip of back legs to tip of front legs. I saw 3 of this type of spider within 1.5 m of passage. The spiders were in the centre of the their webs between 1m and 1.5 m above the cave floor. They were in the entrance zone where there is very dim, indirect light for much of the day, and in a location that gets quite a lot of gentle through breeze.

This specimen was awkward and slow when removed from the web and placed on a flat surface. The spider stayed quite still while I put it on its back, and took a while to turn itself the right way up.

Very dark spider. Light hairs on the back of the abdomen make it look almost like there is a layer of fungus growing on it. It was in a web overlapping with an Izuthunzi capense ( https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/190782331).