Shiny Long-jawed Spider: Male, 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, dorsal🔎

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Plains and possibly elsewhere
~9mm long (excluding the chelicerae "jaws" which are an additional 3mm).
When commenting on a male, with an abdomen similar to a female on-line, Jonathan Jakobs (JJSpiders) said "Tetragnatha who freshly molted into adult males can resemble females in opisthosoma."

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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