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Bird-dropping Spider
Celaenia excavata
-37.8953, 145.3
Field Notes
Description:
This spider was about 12mm long with a knobbly, mostly white abdomen. The cephalothorax was equally knobbly but blotchy with white and black patterns. All legs were tucked close to the body, making the whole spider look like a black and white blob on the leaf much like a bird's dropping.
Habitat:
Spotted on a leaf of a low branch of a eucalyptus tree - ? species.
Notes:
As I was inspecting the spider, the whole blob heaved and shifted about just a few millimeters. It was obviously not comfortable and it did this again - quite creepy. Not once did it extend its legs but remained looking just like a blob of bird dropping.
My previous spotting of a similar but smaller spider:
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/16996094
This spider belongs to the Family Araneidae
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