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- Spiders in this family do not have poison glands. They capture prey only
rely on wrapping by silk. They build small incomplete orb web, mostly
horizontal, usually not as perfect as those built by spiders in other web
building families. They use different type of silk, known as cribellate
silk which is woolly appearance. Those spiders sometimes find live in group
with individual webs loosely connected.
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 - Leg to leg 15mm
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- Humped Spider
 - Uloboris congregabilis, leg to leg 15mm
- This is a small spider and dull brown in colour. The humped abdomen is in
triangular profile. It builds small horizontal or inclined orb webs.
 - Next to the spider web we found a group of young spiders of about 2mm
size. They are shiny black in colour, have the same body shape as their
mother.
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- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p33, Fig 17.
- 2. Uloborid spiders
- Ed Nieuwenhuys, Ronald Loggen 1997/98.
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