Salsa fuliginata

1 Sooty Orb-weaver at Splitters Creek, NSW

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Identification history

	Salsa fuliginata	29 Apr 2021	MichaelMulvaney
	Unidentified	10 Apr 2021	KylieWaldon

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HIstorical. I think this is the underside of a very pretty spider. I took the picture for the flower and didn't see the spider at the time.

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MichaelMulvaney wrote:

29 Apr 2021

Kylie - the taxonomy of the orb weaver spiders is not clear and different guides give different treatments - I am confused at the difference (or whether they are in fact the same species) between the Cyclosa fulignata group and Araneus hamiltonii

KylieWaldon wrote:

1 May 2021

Thanks Michael. I was surprised how similar underneath this spider was to the St Andrews Cross Spider I had seen on the NSW coast at christmas.

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1 Abundance
30 Nov 2020 08:11 AM Recorded on
KylieWaldon Recorded by
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Spiders Orb-weaving spiders (several families) KylieWaldon Albury, Wodonga NatureMapr

Species information

Salsa fuliginata Scientific name
Sooty Orb-weaver Common name
Not Sensitive
Local native
Non-invasive or negligible
Up to 1581m Recorded at altitude
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Synonyms
Cyclosa fuliginata (Sooty Orb-weaver)

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