Fat Orb Weaver: Pregnant, dorsal

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Orb-weaver Spider (Araneidae)

Species:

Fat Orb Weaver (Zealaranea cf crassa)

This Photo:

Pregnant, dorsal

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A very strange medium sized spider. 2 horned, or 2 spined, and pregnant.
Reddish brown, with it's legs well tucked up.
Looks like a gall. Has a white / yellow / pale stripe all around. It's also faintly two tone with the stripe making the letter "U", or "V", on it's back; separating the 2 tones.
It's perched on a Hakea Wattle (Acacia hakeoides).

This species is

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

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