Ant Spider: Female S1, Eye Arrangement, side

Ant Spider (Habronestes pseudoaustraliensis)

Class:

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

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Ant Spider (Zodariidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Ant Spider (Habronestes pseudoaustraliensis)

This Photo:

Female S1, Eye Arrangement, side

Thank you Ethan Yeoman for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
1st Live Photo on-line:
We found two species within a metre of each other. One was ~5mm long, the other ~6mm. We think the larger one was gravid.
Notice the eye arrangement & solid white line around the abodomen.
Often Habronestes have the while line is broken into a couple of diagonal stripes.
As with all spiders, the dorsal patterns are not reliable for id.

This species is

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

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