Gold Coast Spiders > Spider Index
The Arkys cornutus (Horned Triangular Spider) is a beautiful spider that is triangular to heart-shaped, colour varying from yellow to orange, and light to dark reddish-brown and distinctive pale white spots.
It is an ambush hunter, often found hiding in foliage as it waits for prey. Whilst the spider does not build a web, it is known to lay silk on the foliage (often under the leaf), that most likely helps the spider move around the foliage.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Arkyidae
- Genus: Arkys
- Species: Arkys cornutus
Footnote & References
- Photographs © Stefan Jones
- Arkys cornutus L. Koch, 1872, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/e998fb62-f617-4533-8d14-27e68250dabd
- Horned Arkys (Arkys cornutus), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/201611-Arkys-cornutus
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