Badumna insignis

Black House Spider at Aranda, ACT

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Identification history

	Badumna insignis	3 Feb 2018	MichaelMulvaney
	Unverified	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

MichaelMulvaney wrote:

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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Location information

Coordinates 149.081540 -35.258151
Places Aranda, ACT

Sighting information

2 Abundance
31 Dec 2014 05:37 PM Recorded on
KMcCue Recorded by
Collections
KMcCue Canberra & Southern Tablelands NatureMapr Other web-building spiders Spiders

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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More than one media file
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Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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Additional attributes

Australian Capital Territory

New South Wales

Queensland

Northern Territory

Western Australia

South Australia

Victoria

Tasmania