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Alice Springs SpidersAustralian Golden Orb Weaver Australian Huntsman Spiders (Sparassidae) Banded Garden Spider Beautiful Badge Huntsman (Neosparassus calligaster) Cytaea sp Desert Huntsman Spider Elegant Water Spider (Dolomedes facetus) Hackled Orb-weavers Long-jawed Orb Weavers Long-tailed St. Andrew’s Cross Spider Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae) Miturgidae (Elassoctenus spp) Red-headed Mouse Spider Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) Wall Spider (Oecobius sp)
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 is home to a wonderful array of spider species. Checkout our spider observations here in Alice Springs and Central Australia.
Click on the images to go to information on the spiders.
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… so smile please when you get a glimpse of a spider like this…
We have a growing list of spiders under our general Fauna > Spiders section and throughout this site, that include photos of spiders taken here in Alice Springs/Central Australia, as well as elsewhere in Australia.
Some of the spiders sighted here in Alice Springs include:
- Australian Golden Orb Weaver Spider (Trichonephila edulis)
- Australian Huntsman Spider (family Sparassidae)
- Banded Garden Spider (Argiope trifasciata)
- Barking Spider (Selenocosmia stirlingi)
- Beautiful Badge Huntsman Spider (Neosparassus calligaster)
- Black House Spider (Badumna insignis)
- Desert Huntsman Spider (Isopedella inola)
- Elegant Water Spider (Dolomedes facetus)
- Hackled Orbweavers (family Uloboridae)
- Long-jawed Orb Weaver (genus Tetragnatha)
- Long-tailed St. Andrew’s Cross Spider (Argiope protensa)
- Lynx Spider (genus Oxyopes)
- Miturgidae (Elassoctenus spp)
- Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti)
- Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria)
- Wall Spider (family Oecobiidae, genus Oecobius)
- 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
Alice Springs SpidersAustralian Golden Orb Weaver Australian Huntsman Spiders (Sparassidae) Banded Garden Spider Beautiful Badge Huntsman (Neosparassus calligaster) Cytaea sp Desert Huntsman Spider Elegant Water Spider (Dolomedes facetus) Hackled Orb-weavers Long-jawed Orb Weavers Long-tailed St. Andrew’s Cross Spider Lynx Spider (Oxyopidae) Miturgidae (Elassoctenus spp) Red-headed Mouse Spider Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) Wall Spider (Oecobius sp)
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