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	Class:	Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
	Order:	Spiders (Araneae)
	Family:	Orb-weaver Spider (Orb: 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."
	Copyright © 2021-2023 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 27-Jan-2021
This species is  an  Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.