Spiders
Spiders
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
- A good introduction: http://www.ento.csiro.au/education/allies/araneae.html
- All about Australian spiders: http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2409
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Discussion
EathanDouglas
wrote:
Yesterday
The PME & PLE are both large but the PLE are still smaller than that of the PME by a noticeable amount, The anterior row are all sub-equal,
Lycosidae (family)
Harrisi
wrote:
Yesterday
Large, ya reckon? Four eyes of similar size in a square usually indicates Miturgid. IF only two I'd concur with Lycosid. Not the best pics unfortunately....
Lycosidae (family)
Significant sightings
- Maratus mungaich at Pickering Brook, WA
- Idiosoma sp. (Genus) at Denman Prospect, ACT
- Maratus robinsoni at Oallen, NSW
- Maratus hesperus at Uriarra Village, ACT
- Acroaspis olorina at Mount Ainslie to Black Mountain
- Myrmarachne (genus) at Sea Acres National Park
- Anamidae at Kenny, ACT
- Maratus harrisi at Kosciuszko National Park
- Maratus harrisi at Yaouk, NSW
- Maratus hesperus at Yaouk, NSW
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