Shiny Long-jawed Spider
Male, Eye Arrangement
Adelaide Plains
Square-ended Cobweb Spider
Female, dorsal
 
                      
Shiny Long-jawed Spider (Tetragnatha nitens)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Long-jawed Spider (Tetragnathidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Shiny Long-jawed Spider (Tetragnatha nitens)
This Photo:     Male, Palps & Chelicerae

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Plains and possibly elsewhere
~9mm long (excluding the chelicerae "jaws" which are an additional 3mm).

Copyright © 2017-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 02-Apr-2017
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.