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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Announcements

Temporary disruption to attributes
Yesterday

There will be some temporary disruption to attributes when adding or editing sightings while we upgrade a complex part of the system.This may mean that some of the usual questions that are relevant to...

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New feature: duplicate a sighting

Capital Ecology backs NatureMapr for 2026

NatureMapr integrates with Wildlife Insights for NSW based camera trap data

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Discussion

JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
Yesterday
Yo ! Watch this space – many more to come from times past back as far as the 1990s and recent sightings, across eastern coastal regions of this continent .
Pandercetes gracilis
YumiCallaway wrote:
Yesterday
How exciting! :D Great to get more species represented on the database
Pandercetes gracilis
JasonPStewartNMsnc2016 wrote:
Yesterday
@EathanDouglas . Kindly thank you !
Pandercetes gracilis
EathanDouglas wrote:
Yesterday
Had to add this one to the system :)
Pandercetes gracilis
YumiCallaway wrote:
16 Jun 2025
Excellent, thanks!
Araneae (order)

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