Comb-footed Platform Spider - Achaearanea mundula
- Female, body length 7mm
- The Comb-footed Platform Spiders are common in Brisbane Eucalypt forest. They are dark reddish-brown in colour with pale patterns on the abdomen.
- They build tangled webs between large but very close smooth-bark gum tree trunks. There is always the curled leaf or pieces of debris as retreat at the middle of the tangle web.
- Males look the same but half the size of female.
- Reference:
- 1. Achaearanea mundula - The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
FAMILY THERIDIIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Comb-footed Platform Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
