Wasp-mimicking Swift Spider
Female, eye arrangement
Ellura
Black Swift Spider
Female, Dorsal
 
                      
Wasp-mimicking Swift Spider (Nyssus coloripes)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Swift Spider (Corinnidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Wasp-mimicking Swift Spider (Nyssus coloripes)
This Photo:     Female, ventral, ~7mm
Synonym: Supunna picta
Other name: Orange-legged Swift Spider

Thank you Reiner Richter for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
An INCREDIBLY fast species. We haven't come across a faster invertebrate. They can be out of the insect box, over your hand, back to the box, twice around it and onto the table before your reactions have pulled your hand away!

Copyright © 2016-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 27-Jul-2016
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.