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Two-spined spider
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Fact Box
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Poecilopachys australasia (BB, QM)
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Poecilopachys bispinosa
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female: 5 mm
male: 2.5 mm
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Underneath green leaves during the day; makes a small orb web during the night and may also be found guarding a small brown spindle-shaped, papery egg sac
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Unknown but this spider is too small to be hazardous to humans and is not aggressive anyway
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This species only forms a small orb web at night and thus is not often noticed during the daylight hours.
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Other jewel spiders, such as Astracantha minax and Gastracantha quadrispinosa.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 23 September 2005.
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