Net-casting Spider
S2, Female, palps
Net-casting Spider
S2, Female, lower eye-arrangement
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| Net-casting Spider S2, Female, palps | | Net-casting Spider S2, Female, lower eye-arrangement | | ||
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 | 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 sp)| This Photo: | S2, Female, upper eye-arrangement | Synonyms: | Deinopis subrufa or Deinopsis subrufa | Other name: | Ogre-faced Spider | Thank you Matthew Connors (Matthew_Connors), 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 ones 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. Matt advised not going to species saying "There are many species and all are poorly-known. Some may be synonyms, but I am not so sure that A. subrufa would take priority. A. schomburgki was described from near here and may be the senior name if they are synonyms."
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