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Theridion pyramidale

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Species:
Theridion pyramidale (RM)
(but more likely to qualify as an Achaearanea species)
Family:
Theridiidae
Body length:
female: 4.5 mm
male: 3 mm
Habitat:
This species builds a small tangled web among shrubs in eucalypt forests; this web usually is not connected with the ground, unlike some web-building theridiids
Toxicity:
This species has fangs that are too small to cause a significant human envenomation
Theridion pyramidale
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View from above
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another side view
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Oblique view

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Theridion species, Theridion species (?) and Latrodectus hasseltii.



Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 24 January 2007.