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Orange-legged Swift Spider-female
Nyssus coloripes
-37.8985, 145.312
Field Notes
Description:
A fast moving attractive spider with black cephalothorax and abdomen, black and white banded hind legs and orange front legs. The body had white patterns along the sides, a median white line on the cephalothorax and broken white pattern along the midline of the abdomen.
Habitat:
Spotted in the local garden.
This species is seen throughout mainland Australia and Tasmania
Notes:
Its behaviour and erratic movements are a mimicry of the pompilid wasp - the orange legs move up and down like the orange antennae of the wasps. <br>
Males have modified palps as in http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/1932496002
More information: <br>
http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/sacspiders/sacspiders.html <br>
Family: Corinnidae <br>
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedNovember 18, 2015
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