Cupboard Spider: Dorsal

Class:

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

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Comb-footed Spider (Theridiidae)

Species:

Cupboard Spider (Steatoda cf grossa)

This Photo:

Dorsal

Other name:

Brown House Spider

General Species Information:
Found in the Adelaide Hills and possibly elsewhere
These will make you sick for a few days if bitten. It's related to the redback, so it's quite understandable.
It's possibly a different species (as with the case with all our inverts), but S. grossa originated in Canada.

This species is classed as

If (Foreign Introduction)

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