Net-casting Spider
Female, lower eye-arrangement
Ellura
Net-casting Spider
Male, dorsal
 
                      
Net-casting Spider (Asianopis subrufa)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Net Casting Spider (Deinopidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Net-casting Spider (Asianopis subrufa)
This Photo:     Female, ventral
Synonyms: Deinopis subrufa or Deinopsis subrufa
Other name: Ogre-faced Spider

Thank you Suzanne and Jim & Peter Crowcroft for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Highly variable species, generally grey to brown and up to 25mm body & head length. We have only found smaller one ranging in size from 8mm to 19mm.
They have 2 very large eyes pointing forward, similar to jumping spider, on the 2nd row. The other 6 smaller eyes are arranged as: 1 row of 2 eyes above, 1 row of 2 eyes below the larger ones, and the final 2 pointing down to the side on raised mounts. Long strong legs. Often specimens have lumps on the side and dark triangular stripes down their backs.
It's possible all 6 Australian Deinopis species are actually one species.
The males have very large palps for their body size

Copyright © 2017-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 25-Feb-2017
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.