Flat-backed Orb-weaver: Female, ventral

Flat-backed Orb-weaver (Backobourkia sp ES02)

Class:

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

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Orb-weaver Spider (Araneidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Flat-backed Orb-weaver (Backobourkia sp ES02)

This Photo:

🔍Female, ventral🔎

Thank you Caitlin Henderson for identifying and Suzanne and Jim for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
~13mm long. We thought it was Eriophora biapicata.
Caitlin said "The reduced humps are a puzzle."
Suzanne & Jim said "It's easy to see the way the scape kinks up and back down right at the end, something you see in Backobourkia."

This species is

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

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