Here’s an interesting turn of events. Mr Graham Smith replied to my email. Very interesting it is too. Below is his response in full.
Hello Mr Wood,
Sorry for the lack of forth coming info. but due to the fact we have been away on another field trip and the press went a little overboard on the story, I thought it best if we allowed the story to settle whilst we do any other follow up work, so we can supply the facts! At present it looks as if the species is a Meta of some sort ( as was our first thought) but so far no clear confirmation. We have one real good piece of help in that the spiders toxin is being checked out for content which will be of great help for this little known group of spiders ( that is that little is known about this group rather than this group is little known about, got to watch those quotes now!) I will be sorting out some more photo’s soon and would be more than willing to share these with you as well as let you have a full copy of the write up.
Best regards Graham
