SpidersIndex of Spider Images Spiders in Australia Araneidae — Orb Weavers Arkys Australian Huntsman Spider Barking Spider Black House Spider Carepalxis sp Celaenia sp Crab Spiders Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders Dolomedes sp Dolophones sp Flower Spiders Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae) Jewel Spider Jumping Spider Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp) Lynx Spider (Oxyopes) Mangrovia albida Maratus volans Missulena occatoria (Red-headed Mouse Spider) Miturgidae Nicodamidae (Red and Black Spider) Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider Poltys sp (Twig Spider) Redback Spider Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi) Thomisidae Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes) White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus) Wolf Spider
The genus Carepalxis are said to be a secretive group of orb-weaver spiders, that hide by day, building their webs at night, only to dismantle their webs in the morning.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Carepalxis
- Species:
- Carepalxis beelzebub (Hasselt, 1873) — Australia (Victoria)
- Carepalxis bilobata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland)
- Carepalxis camelus Simon, 1895 — Paraguay, Argentina
- Carepalxis coronata (Rainbow, 1896) — Australia (New South Wales)
- Carepalxis lichensis Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (Queensland)
- Carepalxis montifera L. Koch, 1872 — Australia (Queensland)
- Carepalxis perpera (Petrunkevitch, 1911) — Mexico
- Carepalxis poweri Rainbow, 1916 — Australia (New South Wales)
- Carepalxis salobrensis Simon, 1895 — Jamaica, Mexico to Brazil
- Carepalxis suberosa Thorell, 1881 — New Guinea
- Carepalxis tricuspidata Chrysanthus, 1961 — New Guinea
- Carepalxis tuberculata Keyserling, 1886 — Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
Footnote & References
- Photographs (Project Maratus) © Michael Doe
- Michael Doe on Flickr – spiderphotography21 and michael doe (Project Maratus)
- Carepalxis L. Koch, 1872, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/bbe7b116-2137-4099-96d0-dadb6464097e
SpidersIndex of Spider Images Spiders in Australia Araneidae — Orb Weavers Arkys Australian Huntsman Spider Barking Spider Black House Spider Carepalxis sp Celaenia sp Crab Spiders Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders Dolomedes sp Dolophones sp Flower Spiders Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae) Jewel Spider Jumping Spider Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp) Lynx Spider (Oxyopes) Mangrovia albida Maratus volans Missulena occatoria (Red-headed Mouse Spider) Miturgidae Nicodamidae (Red and Black Spider) Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider Poltys sp (Twig Spider) Redback Spider Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi) Thomisidae Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes) White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus) Wolf Spider