Spider ID?
Sorry, no pic, but can anyone suggest what type of spider I might have seen by my woodpile by this description? The details are not great, as it was seen from about 2 m away on a concrete surface.
Location Banks Peninsula, the firewood was partly from here and partly brought to this location from Westmorland in Chch city.
It was ~50 mm in length, including the legs.
The abdomen was plain grey, and possibly smooth with a central recess? Or possibly slightly dark striped? It reminded me of the slater spider abdomen but was an even dull mid grey and possibly not as rounded, and bigger.
The body was darker than the abdomen.
The legs were dark, possibly black, and lay very flat on the surface it was on, around the body, in an arrangement with angled joints that was quite unusual and reminded me of pics of an aussie huntsman.