Striped tick spider at Hawker, ACT
Identification history
| Euryopis umbilicata | 23 Nov 2020 | YumiCallaway | ||
| Euryopis umbilicata | 23 Nov 2020 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Unidentified | 23 Nov 2020 | AlisonMilton |
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User's notes
Doesn't quite look like a spider but unsure what other category to put it under. Two interesting observations. It was dragging the ant attached to its abdomen rather than carrying it in its jaws. Also in photo two, there is a fly attached to the ant.
1 comment
AlisonMilton
wrote:
23 Nov 2020
Thanks Michael, I was thinking tick spider as it looked like a tick.
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Location information
- Coordinates 149.038160-35.244333
- Altitude 684.0m
- Places Hawker, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 20 Nov 2020 09:59 PM Recorded on
- AlisonMilton Recorded by
Additional information
- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
Species information
- Euryopis umbilicata Scientific name
- Striped tick spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 776m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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Synonyms
Euryopis superba
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