Alice Springs Fauna •
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) Hackled Orb-weavers Hortophora sp 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)
Suggested that this spider is one of the ‘Backobourkines’ or ‘Three Pointed Orb Weavers’. In Australia these include genera like Salsa, Novakiella, Hortophora and Araneus. An underneath shot of the spider is often necessary to tell them apart.
The following photographs of a possible Backobourkia in an urban garden in Alice Springs, Central Australia.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus:
- Araneus
- Backobourkia
- Hortophora
- Novakiella
- Salsa
Footnote & References
- ‘Backobourkines’ or ‘Three Pointed Orb Weavers’, many thanks to Arnee Pu for help with ID, member of Entomology Australia “Invertebratology”, https://www.facebook.com/groups/507004496955277/
- Backobourkia Framenau, Dupérré, Blackledge & Vink, 2010, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/7f5a3924-e1a5-4a1e-8cb2-2d2acb7a2201
- Outback Orb-Weavers (Genus Backobourkia), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/209526634
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) Hackled Orb-weavers Hortophora sp 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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