Spider species

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Overview

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

61 species

Araneus eburnus (Bush orb weaver)

Araneus eburnus
Araneus eburnus
Araneus eburnus

Araneus hamiltoni (Hamilton's Orb Weaver)

Araneus hamiltoni
Araneus hamiltoni
Araneus hamiltoni

Araneus talipedatus (Slender green orb-weaver)

Araneus talipedatus
Araneus talipedatus
Araneus talipedatus

Artoria howquaensis (Wolf Spider)

Badumna insignis (Black House Spider)

Badumna insignis
Badumna insignis
Badumna insignis

Badumna longinqua (Grey House Spider)

Badumna longinqua
Badumna longinqua
Badumna longinqua

Badumna sp. (genus) (Lattice-web spider)

Badumna sp. (genus)
Badumna sp. (genus)
Badumna sp. (genus)

Clubiona sp. (genus) (Unidentified Stout Sac Spider)

Clubiona sp. (genus)
Clubiona sp. (genus)
Clubiona sp. (genus)

Delena cancerides (Social huntsman spider)

Delena cancerides
Delena cancerides
Delena cancerides

Dolomedes sp. (genus) (Fishing spider)

Dolomedes sp. (genus)
Dolomedes sp. (genus)
Dolomedes sp. (genus)

Eriophora biapicata (Garden orb weaver)

Eriophora biapicata
Eriophora biapicata
Eriophora biapicata

Habronestes bradleyi (Bradley's Ant-Eating Spider)

Habronestes bradleyi
Habronestes bradleyi
Habronestes bradleyi

Hadronyche meridiana (Funnel-web spider)

Hortophora sp. (genus) (Garden orb weaver)

Hortophora sp. (genus)
Hortophora sp. (genus)
Hortophora sp. (genus)

Isopedella pessleri (A huntsman spider)

Isopedella pessleri
Isopedella pessleri
Isopedella pessleri

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