Sliver Lobed Spider - Cyclosa sp.
FAMILY ARANEIDAE
This page contains pictures and information about Silver 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 and its lobed abdomen is silver in colour.
- We took the above pictures in Karawatha Forest during late winter. The spider seemed building an egg-sac.
- This spider builds small vertical orb web with circular stabilimentum.
- The spider often leaves a line of insect debris down below the centre of the web.
- 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.
