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Hunting Spiders
This page contains pictures and information about Hunting Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia. For Web Building Spiders, please visit our Web Building Spiders web site.
- Followings listed the hunting spider families that we can found up to this moment. For Web Building Spiders, please visit our Web Building Spiders web site.
Family: Corinnidae, Sun spiders- Some spiders in this family mimic ants. Their legs are usually long and slender. Most corinnids live in leaf litter or on dry bark of trees. They hunt on open ground and tree trunk.
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Family: Hersiliidae,
Two-tailed Spiders
- Two-tailed Spiders are small spider and easily identified because of their long 'tails'. They are common but hard to find. They are heavily camouflaged. The spiders body is flat and with the pattern of bark. Their legs are long. The two tails are their spinners which lay silk to trap their prey.
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Family: Lycosidae, Wolf spiders
- The spider that you see wandering across the garden path or between plants is quite likely a common Wolf Spider. These spiders are real hunters and have very good eyesight. They are fast moving, hunting in the open ground. They are usually dull grey or brown in colour.
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Family: Oxyopidae, Lynx spiders
- They are long legs spiders, usually small in size. They have eight eyes, in the pattern of four rows of two as below.
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Family: Salticidae, Jumping spiders
- This is a very large family contains the most colourful species of spiders. They are easily recognized by their eyes pattern. They have very good eyesight and very active. Each species in this family have different colourful patterns on their bodies.
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Family: Sparassidae, Huntsman Spider
- They are medium to large spiders, usually with flat body and legs are held in forward crab-like position. They have eight eyes in two rows of four.
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Family: Thomisidae, Crab spiders
- They are commonly called Flower Spider or Crab Spider. They are small to medium size with colour of green, yellow, white brown and grey. They are not hairy. All of them have eight eyes in two rows of four.
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Family: Pisauridae,
Water Spiders
- The spiders in this family live at water edge of creeks and ponds. They are sometimes called Nursery Web or Fishing Spiders. They can run across water surface and dive under water after prey. Water Spiders have eight eyes on their head in two rows of four.
- For Spiders that build web, please visit our Web Building Spiders web site.
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All spiders has their silk glands at their bottom of their abdomen, the back side of their body. Some spiders build webs and some do not. This page is about those spiders do not build any kinds of web. But all spiders make silk egg sac to protect their young.
