Ant Spider
Female S1, Eye Arrangement, side
Ant Spider
Female S1, Abdomen Pattern
| Ant Spider Female S1, Eye Arrangement, side | | Ant Spider Female S1, Abdomen Pattern | | ||
 | 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 S2, Eye Arrangement, above | ||||
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. | |||||
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