Brown-lobed Spider - Cyclosa insulana
FAMILY ARANEIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Three-lobed Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Body length 8mm
- This is a relatively small web build spider. The spider is brown in colour with patterned abdomen.
- We took the above pictures in Karawatha Forest near dry creek bed on Dec 2007.
- This spider builds small vertical orb web.
- The spider collected the plant materials that dropped and attached on web. The spider put the debris next to it at the centre of the web.
- The spider sometimes makes regulator circle stabilamenta.
- Thank to Dr Volker W. Framenau for the identification of this spider. As Dr Framenau suggested, there are one or two species look very similar to this one.
- Reference:
- 1. Cyclosa species - The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
- 2. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p67, Plate163.
- 3. Thumbnail page of Australian spiders - by Ed Nieuwenhuys, 2007.
- 4. Australian Spiders in colour - Ramon Mascord, Reed Books Pty Ltd, 1970, p84.
- 5. Cyclosa insulana? - Save Our Waterways Now.
