Badumna insignis

Black House Spider at Aranda, ACT

Badumna insignis at Aranda, ACT - 31 Dec 2014
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Identification history

Badumna insignis 3 Feb 2018 MichaelMulvaney
Unidentified 30 Jan 2018 KMcCue

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User's notes

Neighbouring spiders with egg sacks and very different webs. Nice surprise for the gas meter reader.

4 comments

KimPullen wrote:
   3 Feb 2018
Image 1 is a Black house spider. Image 2 is a huntsman, Isopeda sp.
KMcCue wrote:
   3 Feb 2018
Many thanks Kim
   4 Feb 2018
Kevin can you please load the huntsman separately it should appear as a nearest sighting at the bottom of teh page of this Black house spider sighting - thanks
KMcCue wrote:
   4 Feb 2018
No worries

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Additional information

  • 25mm to 50mm Animal size

Species information

  • Badumna insignis Scientific name
  • Black House Spider Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 840m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • External link More information
  • Synonyms

    Amaurobius robustus Ixeuticus robustus

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