Scorpion-tailed Spider - Arachnura higginsii

FAMILY ARANEIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about Scorpion-tailed Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 20mm

 

We some time find this Scorpion-tailed Spider in our back yard. It is golden yellow in colour. Its abdomen is long and slender, like a scorpion. Like most other members in this family, it build circuit web. It stay at the middle of the web in day and night. 

 

 

 

The spider build vertical orb web about one meter in diameter, usually one to two meters about ground. The second picture shows the Scorpion-tailed Spider with her egg sac. The male is much smaller in size (2mm) and hardly be noticed.

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Last updated: July 05, 2004.