Ant Spider
Male, ventral		Ellura
Ant-eating Spider
Male, anterior, eyes		 
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Ant-eating Spider (Habronestes cf pictus)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Ant Spider (Zodariidae)     iNaturalist Observation
Species: Ant-eating Spider (Habronestes cf pictus)
This Photo:     Male, dorsal, ~5mm
Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Copyright © 2015-2025 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 12-Apr-2015
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.