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- This page contains pictures and information about Scorpion-tailed
Spiders that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Body length 20mm
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- We sometimes find this Scorpion-tailed Spider in our back yard. It is
golden yellow in colour. Its abdomen is long and slender, like a scorpion.
This spider build circuit web. It stay at the
middle of the web during day and night.
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- The spider build orb web usually with some angles of inclination. The web
is about one meter in diameter, usually one
to two meters about ground. The web is not fully circular. The upper two
sectors left opened with radial threads only.
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- Female, body length 20mm, with egg-sac
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- Mature females are orange-yellow in colour. Young females are darker and
pretty colourful.
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- The above pictures show the Scorpion-tailed Spider
with egg sac. Female makes long string of egg-sacs at the upper vertical
radial thread of the web. Male is much smaller in size (2mm), tailless and hardly be
noticed.
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- Reference:
- 1. Wildlife
of Greater Brisbane - Queensland Museum 1995, p33.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p66.
- 3. Scorpion-tailed spider
- The
Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern
Queensland, 2007.
- 4. Australian Spiders in colour - Ramon Mascord, Reed Books Pty
Ltd, 1970, p80.
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