FAMILY DEINOPIDAE (Dinopidae)- Net-casting Spiders
The species in this family are large and slow moving spiders. They have long body and stick like legs. Their bodies are light brown or grey in colour. They do not build permanent web, instead, they hold the net and throw it towards their prey.
- Net of Net-casting Spider, the cribellate silk
They usually hide in low shrubs and bushes.
- Common Net-casting Spider
- Deinopis ravidus, male leg to leg 80mm, female leg to leg 60mm
- Common Net-casting Spiders are large and slow moving spiders. They have long body, up to 30mm, and stick like legs. Their bodies are light brown or grey in colour. They do not build permanent web, instead, they hold the net and throw it towards their prey. We have details information in this page.
- Net-casting Spider
- Deinopis subrufa (Dinopis bicornis), male leg to leg 80mm, female leg to leg 60mm
- This Net-casting Spiders look similar to the above species. The only different are the pattern on the male and female's abdomen. They are found sometimes on the lower plants in backyards. Please also check this page for more information.
- Small-eyes Net-caster
- Avella angulata (former Menneus angulata), leg to leg 60mm
- Pictures taken in Karawatha Forest during mid summer. This Net-casting Spider does not have the pair of large eyes, like the other species in this family does. Please also check this page.
- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson 1969, p64.
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