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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.
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.
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.
We have a growing list of spiders under our general Fauna > Spiders section, that include photos of spiders taken here in Alice Springs/Central Australia. Some of the spiders sighted here in Alice Springs include:
- Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider (Trichonephila edulis)
- Australian Huntsman Spider (family Sparassidae)
- Australian Huntsman Spider (Isopedella inola)
- Barking Spider (Selenocosmia stirlingi)
- Black House Spider (Badumna insignis)
- Hackled Orbweavers (family Uloboridae)
- Long-tailed St. Andrew’s Cross Spider (Argiope protensa)
- Lynx Spider (genus Oxyopes)
- Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
- Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria)
- Wolf Spider (family Lycosidae sp)
- Wolf Spider (genus Allocosa sp)
Check out our section on Fauna > Spiders and our blog A tangled web…
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborders:
- Mesothelae
- Opisthothelae
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