South Australia FaunaSpiders

South Australia encompasses a diverse range of habitats that include a long coastline stretching along the Southern Ocean and the Great Australian Bight, mallee and scrubland, open grasslands and savannas rangelands, wetlands (including six RAMSAR wetlands of international importance (ie the Coorong, Lake Alexandrina and Lake Albert), riverine systems, arid and desert landscapes, woodlands and forests (many being dominated by eucalyptus trees).

Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), Adelaide Hills SA © Marianne Broug
Superb Fairywren (Malurus cyaneus), Adelaide Hills SA © Marianne Broug

This range of habitats provides a landscape and refuge for a diversity of fauna from mammals, birds, marsupials, reptiles, aquatic creatures, insects and spiders. Whilst much is known about some of our more common and larger fauna, there is a great diversity of unamed species of creatures such as insects and spiders.

Nemophora laurella, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Nemophora laurella on Bursaria spinosa, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Southern Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus), Hawthorndene SA © Marianne Broug
Southern Marbled Gecko (Christinus marmoratus), Hawthorndene SA © Marianne Broug
Opisthoncus nigrofemoratus, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Opisthoncus nigrofemoratus, Belair SA © Marianne Broug
Long-nosed Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus), Cleland Wildlife Park SA © Marianne Broug
Potoroo (Potorous tridactylus), Cleland Wildlife Park SA © Marianne Broug
Jewel Beetle Castiarina xanthopilosa © Marianne Broug
Jewel Beetle Castiarina xanthopilosa © Marianne Broug
Kangaroos, Belair NP SA © Marianne Broug
Kangaroos, Belair NP SA © Marianne Broug

Check out some of the listed fauna here, with many more to be added over times.


  • Scientific classification
  • Kingdom: Animalia

Footnote & References

  1. Photographs © Marianne Broug / Author / Contributor Marianne Broug

South Australia FaunaSpiders

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