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Family Theridiidae
- This page contains pictures and information about Pyramid
Comb-Footed Spiders
that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Leg to leg 40mm
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- This comb-footed spider has the elongated body, triangular shape in profile.
When the spider was hanging upside down on its web, it looked like a tidy
pyramid in mid air. So we call them Pyramid
Comb-Footed Spiders.
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- When
rest, the spider point its three pair of legs towards the front.
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- We found this Pyramid
Combed-foot Spider in a large burned tree hole. There
were a few of them there. They make messy and loose horizontal web. with the
messy networks of threads on above.
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- They are also known to scavenge on the edge of the webs of other large
orb-weaving spider species.
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- The shape of individuals look a bit different.
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Male ?
- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, plate 122.
- 2. Argyrodes
species
- The Find-a-spider Guide for the Spiders of
Southern Queensland, Dr Ron Atkinson, 2009.
- 3. Argyrodes spp.
- Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now.
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