Spiders

Spiders

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Tips for submitting spider sightings: 

Photos from various angles are sometimes necessary for specific ID.

  • front (eye arrangement, pedipalp colour)
  • dorsal (above - general colouration, carapace and abdomen patterns)
  • ventral (underneath - especially useful for some of the ground-dwelling families and orb-weaving families)
  • side (further details for general shape, abdomen patterns and eye configuration)
  • back (further details for abdomen pattern).

Comments or photos on the following also provides valuable information if/when such features are applicable and observed...

  • surroundings and location (eg. ground, leaf litter, hand rail, tree trunk)
  • web structure and silk use (eg. orb, messy & tangled, throwing silk)
  • breeding (eg. display, egg sac)
  • behaviour (eg. hunting, interaction, familiarity with people such as the threatening display of a huntsman or the friendly and curious jumping spiders that jump onto the camera lens)
  • notable, unique, exciting or strange observations (eg. spur-like protrusions from legs, camouflage, mimicry)

Please note that the size of the spider is measured by body length.

  • body size is from the top of the cephalothorax (head) to the tip of the abdomen without including the legs.

(Updated: October, 2022. Please feel free to message a spider moderator if you have any queries or suggestions for improvement)

Resources: 

  • Field guide: A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia authored by Robert Whyte & Greg Anderson
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Spiders

Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae)
Jumping or peacock spiders (Salticidae)
Wolf spiders (Lycosidae)
Other hunting spiders
Orb-weaving spiders (several families)
Trapdoor, Funnelweb or Mouse spiders (Mygalomorphae)
Other web-building spiders
Water spiders (Pisauridae)

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Discussion

KMcCue wrote:
18 Apr 2025
Many thanks, hopefully I will recognise it next time.
Badumna sp. (genus)
kasiaaus wrote:
17 Apr 2025
It could be another Tetragnatha sp. but I thing Tetragnatha valida fits the best.
Unverified Other web-building spider
EathanDouglas wrote:
14 Apr 2025
similar family, Trochanteriidae, the trochanter of leg pair 4 are enlongated in this family :)
Hemicloea sp. (genus)
YumiCallaway wrote:
14 Apr 2025
Sometimes it can help to first focus on something else (like your lovely ruler!), lock the focus, then move your camera to adjust the focus onto the spider!
Austracantha minax
JohnGiacon wrote:
14 Apr 2025
Hi Nate; Mapr originally would not accept the images. I deleted and reloaded - there now. J
Hemicloea sp. (genus)

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