Gold Coast Spiders > Spider Index
Salsa fuliginata, is an orb-weaver spider, family Araneidae and is found throughout Australia, occuring in all mainland states and Tasmania. Commonly known as the Sooty Orb-weaver, this spider may belong to a complex of species and identical with Araneus brisbanae and Araneus hamiltoni.
The female is about 7-9 mm in body length, the male is between 3.5 and 5 mm.
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- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Salsa
- Species: Salsa fuliginata
Footnote & References
- Photographs Salsa fuliginata © Stefan Jones
- Salsa fuliginata (L. Koch, 1872), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Salsa fuliginata
- Salsa fuliginata group, Arachne.org.au, https://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2379
- Salsa fuliginata (Sooty Orb-weaver), NatureMapr, https://canberra.naturemapr.org/species/3797
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