Flat-headed Two-tailed Spider Male, Eye Arrangement | Two-tailed Spider Released, dorsal, ~4.5mm | |||||
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | ||||
Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | ||||
Family: | Two Tailed Spider (Hersiliidae) iNaturalist Observation | ||||
Species: | Flat-headed Two-tailed Spider (Tamopsis cf platycephala) | ||||
This Photo: | 🔍Male, Ventral🔎 | ||||
General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere This species is a northern species only known from NT, Qld & NSW, so suspect it's not the same species, but certainly looks it and is the right size, so probably closely related. ~6mm long excluding appendages (ie legs, spinerets & palps). As can be seen, a very different abdomen shape to our other Two-tailed Spiders. Also quite large, with the male spiders usually considerably smaller than females. Females are reported to be ~10mm | |||||
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