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“I was completely taken in … I truly thought it was a blob of fresh greenish / blackish / whitish bird poop! And even when I got closer “bird poop” was still going through my head. The only thing that gave me pause was that it was in a slightly strange position. Brilliant camouflage. Brilliant critter. Size of the tip of my finger … Common Bird-dropping spider, Celaenia excavata.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Celaenia
- Species: Celaenia excavata
Footnote & References
- Photographs Common Bird-dropping Spider (Celaenia excavata) © Marianne Broug
- Celaenia excavata (L. Koch, 1867), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Celaenia excavata
- Bird-dropping Spider, Australian Museum, https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/bird-dropping-spider/
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