Family Nicodamidae, known commonly as the Red and Black Spider. This may be genus Ambicodamus (yet to be confirmed). The spider was observed in a coastal spotted gum forest area at Wallaga Lake, NSW in the Far South Coast.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Chelicerata
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Infraorder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Nicodamidae
- Genus: Ambicodamus
Footnote & References
- Red and Black Spider, Photographs © Deb Taylor
- Nicodamidae Simon, 1898, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/NICODAMIDAE
- Ambicodamus Harvey, 1995, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Ambicodamus
- Red-and-black Spider Nicodamus peregrinus, debtaylor142, iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/observations/135358925
SpidersIndex of Spider Images Spiders in Australia Spiders Index Araneidae — Orb Weavers Spider sac Arkys Australian Huntsman Spider Barking Spider Black House Spider Carepalxis sp Celaenia sp Cosmophasis micarioides Crab Spiders Deinopidae — Net-casting Spiders Dolomedes sp Dolophones sp Euryopis Flower Spiders Gnaphosidae (Stealthy Ground Spider) Hackled Orbweavers (Uloboridae) Helpis minitabunda (Bronze Hopper) Herennia sp Jewel Spider Jumping Spider Long Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha sp) Lynx Spider (Oxyopes) Mangrovia albida Maratus Missulena occatoria (Red-headed Mouse Spider) Molycria burwelli Mopsus mormon Nicodamidae (Red and Black Spider) Nyssus coloripes (Orange-legged Swift Spider) Ogre-faced Net-casting Spider Poltys sp (Twig Spider) Scorpion-tailed Spider (Arachnura higginsi) Redback Spider Miturgidae Salticidae Tetragnatha Thomisidae Tiger Spider (Trichonephila plumipes) White-spotted Swift Spider (Nyssus albopunctatus) Wolf Spider
