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- Spiders in this family are small to medium size spiders, with round or oval
abdomen dark or brown in colour. Their eight eyes are in two rows of four. They
build tangled web with a tubular retreat, so they are also called Cobweb
spiders.
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- Leg to leg 15mm
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- Usually there are the the silken sheet at one end of of their webs.
The prey that lands on the sheet is caught and consumed in the retreat. The egg
sac is made in the funnel and the male often stays with the female. They produce
cribellate silk (not sticky, but zigzag and elastic).
- Black House Spider
- Badumna insignis (former Ixeuticus robustus), leg to leg 15mm
- Black House Spiders making its web outside its retreat. Every evening the
spider either repairs the web or extends it. The prey, usually small
insects, that lands on the web is caught and consumed in the retreat.
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information.
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- Brown House Spider
 - Badumna longingua (former Ixeuticus longingua), leg to leg 15mm
- The Brown House Spiders looked very similar to the Black
House Spiders above. We identified those found in the bushes with lighter brown
colour as Brown House Spider, those found near houses with darker brown
colour as Black House Spiders. We have more pictures and information about Brown
House Spider in this page.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 1995, p26.
- 2. Badumna
longingua - The
Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern
Queensland, 2007.
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