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FAMILY HERSILIIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Gumtree Two-tailed Spiders that
we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
 - Leg to leg 30mm
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- We found this Gumtree Two-tailed Spider once in Carbrook Wetland on Oct
2011. It was sitting on a large Scribble Bark Gumtree trunk. The spider camouflages
as the same colours and markings as the tree trunk.
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- Two-tailed Spider sits on tree
trunk and lay silk on the near by area. When a small insect come close, the
insect triggers those silk and the spider senses this. The spider will quickly
run around the insect in circles, with the insect in center. The spider will
also lay more silk at the same time, until the insect entangled by the silk,
becomes the meal of the spider.
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- The spider has two
tails, actually they are the long spinnerets.
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- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p42.
- 2. Tamopsis
species -
The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian
Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
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