1 Broun's orb weaver at Hughes, ACT
Identification history
| Backobourkia brounii | 6 Jan 2018 | KimPullen | ||
| Backobourkia sp. (genus) | 5 Jan 2018 | KimPullen | ||
| Unidentified | 5 Jan 2018 | ruthkerruish |
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User's notes
Found on kitchen bench at 7am - I only put it in because I hadn't seen such a spider before.
4 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
7 Jan 2018
I believe you're right, Ruth. Matches image of that species on the Find-a-spider guide for SE Queensland. (Doesn't match those on ALA, but their images are often wrongly identified.)
Location information
- Coordinates 149.098753-35.338061
- Places Hughes, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 5 Jan 2018 12:00 AM Recorded on
- ruthkerruish Recorded by
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Spiders Orb-weaving spiders (several families) ruthkerruish
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Backobourkia brounii Scientific name
- Broun's orb weaver Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 914.52m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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