Spiders

Spiders

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Photos from various angles are sometimes necessary for specific ID.

  • front (eye arrangement, pedipalp colour)
  • dorsal (above - general colouration, carapace and abdomen patterns)
  • ventral (underneath - especially useful for some of the ground-dwelling families and orb-weaving families)
  • side (further details for general shape, abdomen patterns and eye configuration)
  • back (further details for abdomen pattern).

Comments or photos on the following also provides valuable information if/when such features are applicable and observed...

  • surroundings and location (eg. ground, leaf litter, hand rail, tree trunk)
  • web structure and silk use (eg. orb, messy & tangled, throwing silk)
  • breeding (eg. display, egg sac)
  • behaviour (eg. hunting, interaction, familiarity with people such as the threatening display of a huntsman or the friendly and curious jumping spiders that jump onto the camera lens)
  • notable, unique, exciting or strange observations (eg. spur-like protrusions from legs, camouflage, mimicry)

Please note that the size of the spider is measured by body length.

  • body size is from the top of the cephalothorax (head) to the tip of the abdomen without including the legs.

(Updated: October, 2022. Please feel free to message a spider moderator if you have any queries or suggestions for improvement)

Resources: 

  • Field guide: A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia authored by Robert Whyte & Greg Anderson
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Spiders

Huntsman spiders (Sparassidae)
Jumping or peacock spiders (Salticidae)
Wolf spiders (Lycosidae)
Other hunting spiders
Orb-weaving spiders (several families)
Trapdoor, Funnelweb or Mouse spiders (Mygalomorphae)
Other web-building spiders
Water spiders (Pisauridae)

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Discussion

YumiCallaway wrote:
Yesterday
Interesting to see it dancing around on a slug - I wonder what it was there for!
Lampona sp. (genus)
Caric wrote:
25 Mar 2025
I found another one of these jumping spiders on 24 March 2025 in the vicinity of the first one. It was much smaller but had the same elongated body shape and markings. Is there a species name or is the family the closest we can get? Both spiders were in Themeda grassland (weeding it).
Salticidae (family)
NateKingsford wrote:
25 Mar 2025
One of the Venator/Venatrix species
Lycosidae (family)
TwoRivers wrote:
24 Mar 2025
I have been advised by a moderator on the Australian Spider Identification group that the above spider is Trichonephila edulis, Australian Golden Orbweaver
T. plumipes usually has much more orange on the legs , really unmistakabl
Trichonephila edulis
MazzV wrote:
23 Mar 2025
Unidentified Spider

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