Beautiful Ant Mimic Spider at Corrowong, NSW
Identification history
| Poecilipta sp. (genus) | 30 Aug 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Poecilipta sp. (genus) | 6 Jun 2020 | YumiCallaway | ||
| Linyphiidae (family) | 22 Feb 2020 | KimPullen | ||
| Dysdera crocata | 26 Oct 2019 | BlackFlat |
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4 comments
YumiCallaway
wrote:
6 Jun 2020
I think this individual fits with P. venusta (female); distinctive body shape, single white stripe on the abdomen, very long pedipalps and other features overlapping with the image on the bottom left of p130 (Whyte & Anderson, 2017) arachne.org doesn't seem to have any photos, but findaspider.org has an image for male and female. ALA also has a few.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to access Raven's revision on Corinnidae which should include information on P. venusta (https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3958.1.1) and it seems like ALA has limited sightings, however I still think it matches! Distribution is south-eastern Australia and they seem to be scattered through NSW so finding on in ACT isn't too unlikely, particularly given how little information there seems to be on it.
Unfortunately I wasn't able to access Raven's revision on Corinnidae which should include information on P. venusta (https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3958.1.1) and it seems like ALA has limited sightings, however I still think it matches! Distribution is south-eastern Australia and they seem to be scattered through NSW so finding on in ACT isn't too unlikely, particularly given how little information there seems to be on it.
YumiCallaway
wrote:
6 Jun 2020
Oh, thank you! The closest sighting on ALA is a little SE of Bombala which increases likelihood a fair bit :)
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Location information
- Coordinates 148.857422-36.869103
- Altitude 742.7m
- Maps Black Flat at Corrowong
- Places Corrowong, NSW
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 26 Oct 2019 07:02 AM Recorded on
- BlackFlat Recorded by
Additional information
- 5mm to 12mm Animal size
Species information
- Poecilipta sp. (genus) Scientific name
- Beautiful Ant Mimic Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 742.67m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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