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Length: ~0.5cm
Season : Winter season
Time : 12:20pm 05Jan2022
Frequency : Very Rare
Life stage : Adult
Observations :
a. Overall it looks like a well carved wooden art piece.
b. When any external threat is detected, it nicely withdraws it's legs and sits quite (pic 2) .
Spotted inside the car parking very close to open abandoned area with lot of plants.
Spotted on Jan 5, 2022
Submitted on Jun 12, 2022
2 Comments
mauna Kunzah, Thanks for the comment! Yes it's Orb Weaver. Many genera under that have the same pattern. :) I tried to google and got few details.
Check text "leaf-shaped pattern on their fat, roughly triangular ..." in
the page https://australian.museum/learn/animals/...
Closest match is
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australi...
I’m going to be vague here 😆…Araneidae.