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)
The following deceased spider retrieved from a swimming pool in Alice Springs is though to belong to the Australasian Garden Orb-Weavers (genus Hortophora).
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Hortophora
- Species:
- Hortophora biapicata (L. Koch, 1871)
- Hortophora cucullus Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
- Hortophora lodicula (Keyserling, 1887)
- Hortophora megacantha Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
- Hortophora porongurup Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
- Hortophora tatianeae Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
- Hortophora transmarina (Keyserling, 1865)
- Hortophora urbana (Keyserling, 1887)
- Hortophora walesiana (Karsch, 1878)
- Hortophora yesabah Framenau & Castanheira, 2021
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Ben Kurek for ID, member of iNaturalistAU, Australasian Garden Orb-Weavers (Genus Hortophora), ausemade, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/209572274
- Hortophora Framenau & Castanheira, 2021, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/71491455-a99c-4e8a-a3a9-9400d7fd020c
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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