![]() | Spurred Orb Weaver Dorsal, ~5mm | Spurred Orb Weaver Profile | ![]() | |||
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Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Orb-weaver Spider (Araneidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Spurred Orb Weaver (Novakiella trituberculosa)This Photo: | Ventral | Other name: | Three-pointed Novakiella | Thank you Suzanne and Jim & Rog Standen for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This is a very strange spider, a bit of a Heinz 57 variety. It has long thin legs like a Prowling spider, spurs on it's tibia like a Trapdoor, the back of a Backobourkia (triangular with 3 horns) and eyes like a Jumper. Yet small, only ~5mm long. This is a male; the female wouldn't have the spurs. The only thing that was truly unique about it was the dark brown triangular patch on it's back.
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