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Argyrodes species

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Species:
Argyrodes species
(Identification by Greg Anderson)
Family:
Theridiidae
Body length:
female: 6.5 mm
male: 5.5 mm
Habitat:
This species may be found in a small tangled web associated with green vegetation in eucalypt forests and may occupy the periphery of Cyrtophora webs
Toxicity:
Unknown but the fangs on this very small species are far too small to be able to cause a human envenomation
Argyrodes species
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Female
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The male
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Under female
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Female and egg sac

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Argyrodes species.


Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 23 February 2009.