Net-casting Spider
S2, Female, leg spines
Net-casting Spider
S2, Female, upper eye-arrangement
| Net-casting Spider S2, Female, leg spines | | Net-casting Spider S2, Female, upper eye-arrangement | | ||
 | 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: | S2, Female, palps | ||||
| 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 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 | |||||
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