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Ant spider

Storena sp.

Description:

About 10mm long.

Habitat:

On a stone wall in a local nature reserve. Wicks.

Notes:

Yet to confirm species... Zodariidae... Storena maculata is a strong possibility http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian...
The banding on the legs might be variable. This one was seen in the same location a year earlier http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/933...
http://bie.ala.org.au/species/urn:lsid:b...

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4 Comments

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Thanks Atul. I had forgotten about this one.

Atul
Atul 9 years ago

Mark .... this seems to be a spider from the Family Zodariidae...
Possibly a Storena sp.

Mark Ridgway
Mark Ridgway 9 years ago

Ha! Yeah just a joke common name until I know better. Haven't got back to searching for this one. Should be fairly easy with such distinctive banding? :)

Neil Ross
Neil Ross 9 years ago

Are you just tricking with the name? Glad he's just a little guy. If it was big, I guarantee I would be jumping twice as far!!

Mark Ridgway
Spotted by
Mark Ridgway

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Jan 1, 2015
Submitted on Jan 6, 2015

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