Alice Springs Spiders

Alice Springs Fauna •

Alice Springs and Central Australia is home to a number of Spiders genus/species. Belonging to the class Arachnida, more commonly known as arachnids, they share the class with other species including scorpions, harvestmen, ticks and mites.

Central Australia and Alice Springs is home to a wonderful array of spider (some of which have only been listed to family or genus classification). Check out our selection of spider observations in Alice Springs (with 40 currently listed here).

Alice Springs Spider Index

Click on the images to go to information on the spiders.

Striped Orb Weaver (Neoscona sp), Olive Pink Botanic Garden, Alice Springs NT

Zodariidae, family (Ant Spiders), Alice Springs NT

Whether you have an arachnophobia (someone that fears spiders) or arachnophilia (have a love of spiders) or even had an arachnoleptic fit (that little dance when you walk through a spider web), spiders are an interesting part of the web of life.

Alice Springs SpidersAustralian Golden Orb Weaver Australian Huntsman Spiders (Sparassidae) Backobourkines Banded Garden Spider Beautiful Badge Huntsman (Neosparassus calligaster) Cytaea sp Desert Huntsman Spider Elegant Water Spider (Dolomedes facetus) Euryopis sp Gnaphosid (Ground Spider) Hackled Orb-weavers (Uloboridae) Hogna crispipes Hortophora sp Long-jawed Orb Weavers (Tetragnatha) Long-tailed St. Andrew’s Cross Spider (Argiope protensa) Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae) Miturgidae (Elassoctenus spp) Neosparassus sp Oecobius sp Orange-legged Swift Spider (Nyssus coloripes) Orbweavers (Araneidae) Red-headed Mouse Spider Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) Sondra aurea Uloboridae (Cribellate Orb Weavers) Wall Spider (Oecobius sp) Zodariidae

Here in Alice Springs, there are plenty of opportunities to see spiders, whether it is in your own home/garden, or out around town and in the parks and reserves… so smile please when you get a glimpse of a spider like this…