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T H E E X H I B I T I O N An exhibition developed & toured by the Australian Museum & Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre Media Kit 6 DEC 4 MAY 2020 2019 UNTIL

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T H E E X H I B I T I O N

An exhibition developed & toured by the Australian Museum & Questacon – The National Science and Technology Centre

Media Kit

6 DEC 4 MAY

2020

2019 UNTIL

Lynx spider Photo © Robert Whyte

Spiders - The ExhibitionSpiders are awesome - they can spin webs, climb, swim, dance, parachute and they can even drop a limb when threatened and grow it back. Found on every continent in the world except Antarctica, spiders are one of nature’s great success stories.

Spiders - The Exhibition at Queensland Museum will give visitors an eight-eyed insight into the amazing world of arachnids.

Providing a combination of immersion and information, Spiders - The Exhibition showcases the latest science surrounding arachnids that allows the visitor an up close glimpse into the fascinating world of spiders.

Spiders - The Exhibition features fascinating interactive displays, along with more than 200 spider specimens including live Australian tarantulas, funnel-webs, redbacks and giant water spiders.

Spiders - The Exhibition will be a once in a lifetime experience, with engaging and fun interactives for all ages.

Come and get an eight-eyed insight into the amazing world of arachnids when Spiders - The Exhibition opens at Queensland Museum on 6 December, 2019.

Spiders - The Exhibition is a joint project between the Australian Museum and Questacon – The National Science & Technology Centre, Canberra and will run at Queensland Museum until 4 May 2020.

Explore the Exhibition – Themes

Wolf spider, Hoggicosa bicolor

What is a SpiderVisitors to Spiders – The Exhibition are dared to enter into the world of hunting, burrowing and weaving spiders and learn the origin of arachnids from a time before dinosaurs. This is illustrated with fossils and amber from the Australian Museum collection.

Spider Diversity and DistributionThe diversity of spiders is a major theme of the exhibition and a family tree illustrated with real spider specimens begins the journey into understanding some of the 48,000 + species from around the world.

Using 3D scanning technology an interactive touchscreen demonstrates spider anatomy as visitors virtually dissect and view spiders from the inside out.

Spiders inhabit just about every corner of the globe and the range of habitats can be explored though touchscreens with audio visual content and interactive spider environments.

Spider ReproductionStunning world-first footage of the phenomenal 3mm long Peacock Spider and his mating ritual introduce the visitor to the dangerous world of spider reproduction.

Spider SurvivalJust how these creatures have survived millions of years all over the world is unveiled through an explanation of venom, silk, movement, vision and vibrations.

This content involves hands-on interactives, models and live deadly Funnel-web and Redback Spider specimens.

Spider Science and Discoveries There is a constant stream of new science discoveries in the field of arachnology and venom and silk technologies that are highlighted in the exhibition through interviews with scientists.

Traditional Aboriginal knowledge systems are also included to add to our understanding of spiders, silk and venom.

Queensland Museum Research Queensland Museum arachnologists undertake research to document biodiversity and learn about our changing environment. Taxonomy — the identification of new species of animals — is a core component of the Museum’s research program. Learn more about four new species of trapdoor spiders that have recently been discovered and described by Queensland Museum scientists.

These new species have been given the common name of Palisade Trapdoor Spiders because their distinctive burrows protrude out of the ground like miniature turrets or towers.

MEET THE SPIDERSMost Spiders are smaller than your thumb, but they have a mighty reputation. Venom and silk are their superpowers and they save us from a world that would otherwise be overrun with insects.

At Spiders – The Exhibition, you can find out how these amazing animals have become one of the most successful creatures on Earth. Chances are you’re always close to a spider.

A useful way to get to know spiders is to group them according to their lifestyles. Hunters, burrowers and weavers differ in the way they catch their food (prey) and how they use silk.

Come face to face with 12 live spider species during your visit to Spiders - The Exhibition. Here you can meet some of the amazing arachnids that will make Queensland Museum their home until 4 May 2020.

WATCH SPIDERS COME TO LIFE! Watch the spiders come to life by scanning images from the Spiders exhibition with the Spiders Augmented Reality app!

You can make them dance, snap a picture with them and keep the Peacock Spider as a pet.

Spiders that are featured in the app include:

• St Andrews Cross Spider

• Queensland Whistling Tarantula

• Wolf Spider

• Redback Spider

• Red headed Mouse Spider

• Peacock Spider

Uncover the secrets of these under-appreciated arachnids by downloading the Spiders AR to your Apple or Android device today!

Don’t forget to share your experience on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram with #qldmuseum

The Spiders exhibition is a joint exhibition between the Australian Museum and Questacon.

Please note: Visitors are not permitted to handle live spider specimens

Giant Water SpiderScientific Name: Megadolomedes truxDistribution: East coast Australia, from Sydney to

Queensland. Habitat: Riparian zones of slow moving to still

bodies of water (flat water). Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 6 months to 1

year as adults. Adult Size: 160mm leg span and 25mm body length.

Leg span can reach 180mm. Diet: Insects (larvae and adult), small

tadpoles and small fish. Behaviours: They can walk across and float on the

water with the help of a dense covering of hair on the legs that trap air pockets and a hydrophobic exoskeleton that repels water.

Megadolomedes can run quite fast on water and land. On water, they propel themselves with the inner two pairs of legs and use the front pair to detect ripples or vibrations from possible prey.

They can dive and stay underwater for a while by trapping air bubbles with their dense hairs.

They can detect prey by detecting water vibrations with sensory slits in their legs (mostly their front pair).

They hang upside down from rock overhangs, plants or sticks to moult their exo-skeleton.

They have been seen wriggling their tarsus or their palps to lure fish.

Green Jumping SpiderScientific Name: Mopsus mormon Distribution: Northern Australia Habitat: Amongst green foliage (arboreal) Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. Adult Size: 16mm body length. Diet: Insects; flies, crickets, dragonflies; and

smaller spiders. Behaviours: Found amongst green foliage where

green body camouflages. Large eyes forward facing providing wide range view, probably in colour, smaller eyes facing side and back showing a blurry wider peripheral vision. Will stalk prey until in reach (2-3cm) where it will pounce on top of prey, using comparatively large chelicerae to crush and envenom.

Net-casting Spider Scientific Name: Deinopis sp.Distribution: All over Australia. Habitat: Suspended in low lying vegetation in

woodland, grasslands and urban areas. Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. Adult Size: Up to 3cm body length. Diet: Terrestrial insects such as crickets,

cockroaches and beetles. Behaviours: Makes a small web of a few strands of

silk from which it suspends, holding a net made from silk with its front pair of legs.

Will build over a dry leaf directly below which it marks with white dots of urate. It uses these as targets. Once a prey item walks over the white dot, the spider throws the web-net over it.

The front middle pair of eyes (Posterior Median Eyes) are considerably enlarged and are better at gathering light in the dark than a cat or an owl.

The light sensitive retina (that causes their eyes to shine in torch light) is destroyed by the light at each dawn due to not having eyelids, however, unlike any bird or mammal, this membrane is reconstructed every evening.

Social Huntsman SpiderScientific Name: Delena canceridesDistribution: South-western and eastern mainland

Australia and Tasmania. Habitat: Under the loose bark of trees, mostly

Blackwood, Acacia melanoxylon, and River Red Gum, Eucalyptus camaldulensis.

Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. Adult Size: 140mm leg span and 30mm body length. Diet: Insects such as beetles, crickets,

cockroaches and slaters. Behaviours: After mating with female, the male will

go off to mate with other females while the gravid (pregnant) female will seal the bark to the tree with really strong webbing and lay small green eggs into a flat purse made from her silk and wrap it up.

The young will hatch inside the sac and stay there until their first moult.

The mother will then tear open the sac and the young will gather around the mother’s area.

She will share her food until they can catch their own and share it between themselves.

Rather than leaving the mother, they will stay with her and continue to catch and share food with their siblings until they mature.

The older siblings will even watch the next egg sac, while the mother goes off to hunt.

They will generally disperse when they reach maturity or sub-adulthood.

Sydney Funnel-web SpiderScientific Name: Atrax robustusDistribution: Endemic to Sydney, as south of Illawarra,

as west as the Blue Mountains and as north as Central Coast.

Habitat: Damp Forest and urban areas, often under rocks or wood.

Lifespan: 3-10 years. Adult Size: 35mm body length Diet: Insects. Behaviours: Will burrow down with a funnel like

opening surrounded with trip wires. Burrows heavily lined with silk giving

“sock” appearance. Normally found underneath rocks and

wood embedded in damp soils. Most toxic spider in the world,

Atracotoxin being a neurotoxin causing severe pain, muscle cramps, tingling in lips, headaches, loss of eyesight and paralysis of respiratory system, death.

No deaths or severe cases known since the development of the antivenom in 1981.

Redback SpiderScientific Name: Latrodectus hasseltii Distribution: All Australia Habitat: Dark areas in woodlands, grasslands and

urban areas. Lifespan: Up to 3 years, approx. 2 years as adult. Adult Size: 12mm body length (females) Diet: Invertebrates and small vertebrates,

whatever it can catch in its web. Behaviours: Builds a web in dark places with strands

of silk coming down. This complex web is efficient in snaring

many things. Passing prey that trip on the lower lines of silk when become stuck. The trip lines snap and spring up and the prey only gets more stuck.

Ensnared prey struggle sending vibrations along the silk which notifies the spider of the presence of food.

The spider will wrap they prey in silk and eat it later.

Their silk can catch and transport prey larger than itself.

Golden Orb-weaving Spider Scientific Name: Nephila plumipes/edulisDistribution: All Australia. Habitat: Woodlands and Urban areas Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. Adult Size: 240mm body length (females) Diet: Flying insects, occasionally birds

and bats. Behaviours: Constructs an orb web which ensnares

any insect that is unfortunate to fly into it.

Will also prey on birds or bats that become ensnared, spitting digestive fluid inside prey sucking the externally digested food through small holes.

Wraps up prey in silk, sometimes. Sense vibrations of struggling prey

caught in silk. Females spend most their lives in the

centre of their orb web. Males will roam/balloon to find a mate.

Webs stay up permanently, unlike most other orb-weavers. They will patch up small breaks only recreating a web when it is badly damaged.

Preferred method of capture is prey gets caught in web, spider moves to it bites to envenom then wraps it up. It then retreats to the hub of the web with the prey package or leaves the prey package for later.

Australian Tarantulas: Brush Tarantula Scientific Name: Coremiocnemis tropix

Whistling Tarantula Scientific Name: Phlogius sp.

Feather-leg Tarantula Scientific Name: Selenotypu sp.

Distribution: Northern Australia and central regions. Habitat: Phlogius & Coremiocnemis spp. are

found in flooding grasslands and rainforest. Selenotholus & Selenotypus spp. are found in semi-arid grasslands.

Lifespan: 5-15 years. Adult Size: Body length can grow over 50mm and

leg span can be up to 180mm. Diet: Large insects, small vertebrates (rarely

birds though despite sometimes being called “Bird-Eating Spider”).

Behaviours: Nocturnal and burrowing. When alarmed, they make a whistling/

hissing sound by rubbing the hairs of the chelicerae together. This is called stridulation.

Will sit at their burrow entrance at and wait for prey to walk past. It will occasionally actively search for prey.

Burrows can be up to 30cm deep ending with a cavern where they spend most the day.

St. Andrews Cross SpiderScientific Name: Argiope keyserlingiDistribution: Eastern Australia Habitat: Woodlands, heath, dry sclerophyll forest

and urban areas. Lifespan: Up to 2 years, approx. 1 year as adults. Adult Size: 20mm body length (females) Diet: Flying insects. Behaviours: Constructs an orb web which ensnares

any insect that is unfortunate to fly into it.

Sense vibrations of struggling prey caught in silk.

Females spend most their lives in the centre of their orb web. Males will roam/balloon to find a mate.

Webs stay up permanently, unlike most other orb-weavers. They will patch up small breaks only recreating a web when it is badly damaged.

Preferred method of capture is prey gets caught in web, spider moves to it, wraps it up then bites to envenomate. It then retreats to the hub of the web with the prey package or leaves the prey package for later.

Maleny Palisade Trapdoor SpiderScientific Name: Euoplos turrificusDistribution: South East Queensland, Australia, on the

southern Blackall Range near MalenyHabitat: Subtropical rainforest, in a burrow with

a D-shaped door that sits on top of a short turret

Lifespan: Unknown, but likely 5-15 years, and females probably 10+ years as adults

Adult Size: 25-30 mm body length as adults Diet: Variety of ground-dwelling insects and

arthropodsBehaviours: Females spend their lives in their

burrow, whereas males mature and wander in search of a mate during summer and autumn.

This species has a burrow entrance and trapdoor that are very distinctive and species-specific.

At night, trapdoor spiders wait poised just inside their burrow entrance, pouncing on any prey that walks past, injecting it with fast-acting venom and then dragging the unfortunate victim back into the burrow.

MEET QUEENSLAND MUSEUM’S ARACHNOLOGISTSQueensland Museum is home to one of the Southern Hemispheres most active arachnology department with the team of arachnologists describing more than 1,000 species of spiders, which is almost a third of all spiders in Australia. The unit is headed by Queensland Museum’s very own spider man, Dr Robert Raven who has discovered around 500 species. Some of these spiders have been named after celebrities including Judi Dench, Helen Mirren, Jack Nicolson, surfer Mick Fanning, Karl Lagerfeld, Sir David Attenborough, Bob Marley and ballet icon Li Cunxin.

Dr Michael RixDr Mike Rix is a Principal Curator of Arachnology and Research Fellow in the Biodiversity and Geosciences Program at the Queensland Museum. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, and his Ph.D. at the University of Western Australia in 2009. Before joining Queensland Museum in 2015, Mike worked at the Western Australian Museum and the University of Adelaide. Mike works primarily on the taxonomy, systematics, evolutionary biology and molecular biology of Australian spiders. The overriding aim of his research is to combine phylogenetic approaches to explore biogeographic and other evolutionary problems, with revisionary taxonomic approaches to describe and conserve species. He has dedicated most of his career to working with collections and to taxonomically documenting the remarkable spider fauna of Australia, and has described 214 species in eight families.

How many species of spiders have you described?

As of September 2019, I have described 214 new species of spider.

What is your favourite species of spider and why?

My favourite spiders are Pelican Spiders of the family Archaeidae. These enigmatic animals were actually known from fossils before living specimens were discovered in the forests of Madagascar. Today, they are only known from mainland Australia, Madagascar and southern Africa, but fossils are known from the Jurassic Period, and there have been Pelican Spiders on Earth for over 200 million years. They have highly modified bodies, with a hugely elevated head region and long, spear-like mouthparts, which they use to prey on other spiders (they are also sometimes called Assassin Spiders). In Australia we have 38 named species, and in Queensland they occur in rainforest habitats from the Lamington National Park north to the Wet Tropics. These remarkable ‘living fossils’ have captured my interest for over 20 years, and I study them whenever I can!

Why did you become an arachnologist?

I first discovered arachnology at the age of 10, when I saw what I thought to be an ant in some bushland near Ipswich. I realised it wasn’t an ant when it looked up at me, and then abseiled down to a leaf on a line of silk! What I had found was actually an Ant-Mimicking Jumping Spider (Link to this: http://theconversation.com/spiders-disguise-themselves-as-ants-to-hide-and-hunt-their-prey-33953), and from that moment on I was hooked! I soon discovered that spiders were endlessly fascinating, poorly known and terribly misunderstood, and I decided by about the age of 12 that I wanted to pursue a scientific career in arachnology. I’ve never looked back since!

What is your favourite spider fact?

That large female trapdoor spiders in the Australian arid zone can live to over 40 years of age in the wild!

I love spiders because...

They are endlessly fascinating, and can teach us so much about evolutionary processes, ecology and conservation biology. Spiders have a bad-wrap, but the vast majority of species are harmless to humans, and are the dominant predators of insects in all terrestrial environments (and thus crucial to the maintenance of life on Earth). They exhibit an extraordinary diversity of morphologies, lifestyles and behaviours, and have been around for over 300 million years. We still have so much to learn about these amazing animals, and still so many new species to scientifically describe.

Dr Robert RavenDr Robert Raven is the Head of Terrestrial Biodiversity and Principal Curator, Chelicerata, at Queensland Museum. He has a wide knowledge of invertebrate groups, including earthworms and snails, as well as some frogs. Robert heads one of the most active arachnological units in the Southern Hemisphere. Robert first studied spiders to manage his fear of them. Soon after that, when he tried to study the behaviour and ecology of spiders around Brisbane, he discovered that very little was known about their names. Some were new species so he started working on their taxonomy, naming them. He was Chairman of Queensland Museum’s Animal Ethics Committee. Robert has described close to 500 new spider species from Australia, New Caledonia, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Colombia, Peru, Panama, Mexico, India, south-east Asia, New Guinea.

How many species of spiders have you described?

Too many! I am sitting at around 500 species of spiders that I have described and they are from around the world.

What is your favourite species of spider and why?

My favourite species of spider is the Bob Marley Marine Spider, Desis bobmarleyi. I found this spider on the beach in North Queensland and my colleagues and I described it a few years ago. The reason I love this spider so much is because it lives on reefs and only sees air about three to four times a year when the tide drops to 0.3 metre. How does that work??

Why did you become an arachnologist?

I am quite an unusual case as I am an arachnologist with a fear of spiders! I had a fear of the thought of a spider on my arm and decided the only way to logically manage my fear was to study them, from there I discovered there was actually very little known about spiders and I started to describe them. And while I can manage my fear in a work capacity, I know that if a huntsman jumped on me while asleep in bed, I would be petrified!

What is your favourite spider fact?

Some male Daddy Long legs have a reproductive organ bigger than the rest of the body.

I love spiders because…

They always continue to amaze and challenge me. Also I believe the most important things that spiders have done is to allow me to meet an amazing diversity of people and visit some marvellous places through the work I do with them. Which is amazing to think all of this has stemmed from my initial fear of them.

Dr Owen SeemanDr Owen Seeman became an arachnologist about 25 years ago, thanks to seasickness torpedoing aspirations in marine biology, and a realisation that he knew nothing about insects, except that most were not marine and they were more interesting than seashells. This transitioned to a fascination for mites and the extraordinary things they do in some of the most unusual places. After studying flower-inhabiting mites that ride on bees and birds, the remarkable diversity of mites on passalid beetles, and a dalliance with the Tasmanian mite fauna, he joined the Queensland Museum as a collection manager and acarologist (a special branch of arachnology dedicated to mites and ticks). Much of his research has focused on the species diversity, morphological adaptations and curious relationships between mites and their host insects.

How many species of spiders have you described?

Although Owen has described no new species of spiders, he has described 121 species of mites, solo or in research teams.

What is your favourite species of spider and why?

My favourite type of spider is the Bolas Spiders, and I’ll choose the bird-dropping spider (Celaenia excavata). What’s not to love about a spider that mimics not only a piece of poo, but also the pheromones of female moths? At night, when male moths are seeking a mate, these unsuspecting lovebirds end up becoming food for the spider. Another cool thing about these is that they’re orb-weavers that have abandoned orb webs. This is because moths are hard to catch in webs (thanks to their scales), and so orb-weavers have evolved cunning ways of trapping them. Mimicing female sex pheromones, and foregoing web altogether, is the pinnacle of this evolutionary pathway!

Why did you become an arachnologist?

In the long ago, I became fascinated by insects, especially parasitic insects, which are not only economically important but sometimes bizarre. This grew into a love for ticks, which are a type of mite, and thus an arachnid. I was soon swayed to do an honours project on a type of mite that had been found on birds, but should really live in flowers – and, as we suspected, they turned out to be riding on the heads of nectar-feeding birds as a way of moving between flowers. Mites may be tiny, but partly thanks to this they do all sorts of weird and wonderful things, and I’ve loved working on them for 25 years.

What is your favourite spider fact?

I love that spiders can be caught in their own webs – it’s just that they’re wonderfully adept at moving on them. Webs aren’t just entirely sticky: there’s often dry web that the spiders walk on; and many touch the webs only with their hook-like claws at the tips of their feet. Should they get sticky web on their feet, they soon give them a clean. Some spiders also specialise on web-building spiders as prey, and these often have cunning strategies for moving on (or simply avoiding) the web so they can attack the builder of the web!

I love spiders because…

To be totally biased, the best spiders are the ones that are hosts to mites! But my favourite groups of animals are those that express a huge diversity of behaviours. In spiders, I love how they’re all predators, but they catch their prey in all sorts of different ways that seem astonishingly clever to a human observer. In can be the way a jumping spider stalks and hunts prey; how a net-caster builds its intricate trap; or how a tiny silver dewdrop spider raids the webs of golden-orb weavers.

• Spiders were one of the earliest animals to live on land, about 400 million years ago, making them much older than dinosaurs!

• When dinosaurs roamed the earth during the Jurassic period (191 – 136 million years ago), orb weaving spiders where spinning sophisticated aerial webs to catch flying insects.

• Spiders are called invertebrates because they don’t have backbones. They come from the class Arachnida meaning they have a front body and a rear body, 8 legs, 2 biting or piercing mouth parts and 2 palps. Other arachnids found in Queensland include mites and ticks and scorpions.

• Only about one third of the 10,000 spiders in Australia have been named.

• Primitive spiders include trapdoor, funnel-web, wishbone, curtain web, mouse spiders and tarantulas and can live for up to 25 years!

• Modern spiders include orb-weaving, net-casting, daddy-long-legs, water, fishing, nursery, redback, brown widow, wolf, crab, jumping, huntsman, ant and white-tailed species and usually live for 1 or 2 years.

• We use amber spider fossils – that is, complete spiders trapped in clear, sticky, tree resins, to show us that spiders like the ones we know today, lived more than 30 million years ago.

• Spiders can self-amputate to escape a bird or another predator. Some spiders can also regrow their legs when they next moult!

• Spiders are often eaten by hunting wasps seeking food for their young, spider eggs are very nutritious for many wasps, flies and lacewings.

• Spiders also like to eat other spiders, sometimes they eat their siblings, mates or their babies!

• Spiders can be found in Aboriginal art including bark and rock painting, particularly in the Northern Territory of Australia.

• Spiders live in almost every habitat on earth – except for polar regions, high mountains and the open ocean.

• Spiders are an important part of nature – their venom and silk are used in medical research, pest control and fibre technology. Spiders help out by eating lots of insect pests!

• Some spiders are threatened species in Australia due to clearing and degrading of bushland. Habitat conservation is essential to maintaining sustainable ecosystems.

• Spiders are awesome - they can spin webs, climb, swim, dance, parachute and balloon.

FUN SPIDER FACTS

Did you know?

Dr Robert Raven holding a redback spider

Peacock Spider, Maratus harrisi

IMAGES A selection of images that are indicative of what visitors can expect when they visit Spiders - The Exhibition

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Adult: $15.50

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Child (5-15 years) $12.50 (children under 5 FREE)

Family (2A + 2C): $46

Member Adult $13.95

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Events & Public ProgramsAfter Dark (18+ only )Grab a drink and explore all the Museum has to offer — natural history, cultural heritage, science and human achievement that tells the changing story of Queensland. Get entry to the entire Museum including Spiders - The Exhibition There will be demonstrations and displays, live music, entertainment and expert talks.

Dates to be confirmed.

A Night at the Museum Explore the museum as the sun goes down at our night time adventure for our smallest visitors.

Enjoy an evening full of fun for the whole family and entry to every level of the museum including Spiders - The Exhibition.

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A selection of hot and cold family friendly food and drinks will available for purchase. The event is licensed. ID will be required to purchase alcohol

Spiders - The Exhibition ShopLoved finding out more about our eight-legged friends?

Then a visit to the Spiders - The Exhibition shop on Level 3 is a must for those wanting to take home a souvenir to remember their experience. There is a range of spider themed giftware including hats, backpacks, t-shirts and water bottles.

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PRINT PANEL: Print white on red cotton drill540mm wide x 80mm high

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