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- Australian spidersFull spider list
- Spider bites AustraliaBite guidance
- About Spider Identifier AustraliaHow it works and why it exists
Question guides
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- White-tail Spider Bite Myths AustraliaWhite-tail worry
- Funnel-web vs Trapdoor vs Mouse SpiderBig black spider
- Brown Spider in House AustraliaHouse spider clue
State spider guides
Spider identification pages
- Sydney funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Australian funnel-web spidersMedical emergency potential
- Redback spiderMedically significant
- Mouse spiderMedically significant
- White-tailed spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Black house spiderUsually low risk
- Brown house spider / cupboard spiderUsually low risk
- Huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Badge huntsman spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Wolf spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Trapdoor spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Sydney brown trapdoor spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Melbourne trapdoor spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Victorian funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Garden orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Golden orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Humped golden orb-weaving spiderUsually low risk
- St Andrew’s cross spiderUsually low risk
- Net-casting spiderUsually low risk
- Rufous net-casting spiderUsually low risk
- Jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Daddy-long-legs spiderUsually low risk
- Yellow sac spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Flower spider / crab spiderUsually low risk
- Bird-dropping spiderUsually low risk
- Spiny spiderUsually low risk
- Long-jawed orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Blue Mountains funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Northern tree funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Southern tree funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Darling Downs funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Port Macquarie funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Red-headed mouse spiderMedically significant
- Eastern mouse spiderMedically significant
- Wishbone spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Curtain-web spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Brush-footed trapdoor spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Two-tailed spiderUsually low risk
- Grey house spiderUsually low risk
- Social huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Lichen huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Green huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Nursery web spiderUsually low risk
- Fishing spiderUsually low risk
- Clever fishing spiderUsually low risk
- Green jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Sea-green northern jumperUsually low risk
- Garden jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Sparkling northern jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Coastal peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Ant-mimic spiderUsually low risk
- Lynx spiderUsually low risk
- Elegant lynx spiderUsually low risk
- Wrap-around spiderUsually low risk
- Leaf-curling spiderUsually low risk
- Magnificent spiderUsually low risk
- Jewel spiderUsually low risk
- Tent-web spiderUsually low risk
- Dome tent-web spiderUsually low risk
- Silver orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Bolas spiderUsually low risk
- Swift ground spiderUsually low risk
- Orange-legged swift spiderUsually low risk
- Red and black spiderUsually low risk
- Australian tarantula / whistling spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Scorpion-tailed spiderUsually low risk
- Mirror spiderUsually low risk
- Triangular spiderUsually low risk
- Spitting spiderUsually low risk
- Tube-dwelling spiderUsually low risk
- Slater-eating spider / woodlouse hunterUsually low risk
- Flattened bark spiderUsually low risk
- Common house spiderUsually low risk
- White porch spiderUsually low risk
- Diamond comb-footed spiderUsually low risk
- Two-spined spiderUsually low risk
- Heroic orb-weaver / lichen spiderUsually low risk
- Enamelled spider / Bradley’s grass orb-weaverUsually low risk
- White flower spider / spectacular crab spiderUsually low risk
- Pink flower spider / green crab spiderUsually low risk
- Three-lobed spiderUsually low risk
- Ninja-star ceiling spiderUsually low risk
- Red house spiderUsually low risk
- Wall spider / baseboard spiderUsually low risk
- Fringed jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Giant bark jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Superb jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Tasmanian cave spiderUsually low risk
- Banded garden spiderUsually low risk
- Sombrero spider / sheetweb spiderUsually low risk
- Red-tipped square-ended crab spiderUsually low risk
- Trapezoid crab spider / trapezium crab spiderUsually low risk
- Banded huntsman spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Tropical St Andrew’s cross spiderUsually low risk
- Painted cross spiderUsually low risk
- Common peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Banksia peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Bronze Aussie jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Golden-thighed brushed jumping spiderUsually low risk
- White-banded house jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Little striped wolf spiderUsually low risk
- Garden wolf spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Knobbly crab spiderUsually low risk
- Dewdrop spiderUsually low risk
- Sooty orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Knobbled garden orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Nemo peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Hackled orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Wrapped-up twig spiderUsually low risk
- Tasmanian peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Newcastle funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Illawarra funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Border Ranges funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Black wishbone spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Northern wishbone spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Grey huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Brown huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Prowling spiderPainful but usually not life-threatening
- Spotted ground spiderUsually low risk
- Ant-eating spiderUsually low risk
- Brown widow spiderMedically significant
- Whip spiderUsually low risk
- Signal-line spiderUsually low risk
- Bird-lime spiderUsually low risk
- Eastern peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Blue-faced peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Flying peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Jovial jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Pale eastern jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Golden-tail jumperUsually low risk
- Severe jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Squat bark jumping spiderUsually low risk
- Rainbow peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Blue-dot peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Owl peacock spiderUsually low risk
- Slender crab spiderUsually low risk
- Green crab spiderUsually low risk
- Flat rock spiderUsually low risk
- Long-spinneret ground spiderUsually low risk
- Edible golden orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Panther hackled orb-weaverUsually low risk
- Australian Union-Jack wolf spiderUsually low risk
- Grey wolf spiderUsually low risk
- Perth forest wolf spiderUsually low risk
- Southern Sydney funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Spotted trapdoor spiderUsually local pain risk
- Adelaide trapdoor spiderUsually local pain risk
- Northern mouse spiderMedical emergency potential
- Intertidal marine spiderNot known as medically significant
- Foliage-webbing social spiderUsually low risk
- Golden huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Jungle huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Victorian huntsman spiderUsually low risk
- Running crab spiderUsually low risk
- Australian flattie spiderUsually low risk
- Pill flower spiderUsually low risk
- Tasmanian funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Adelaide funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Nadgee funnel-web spiderMedical emergency potential
- Cape tangle-web spiderUsually local pain risk
- Ant-eating comb-footed spiderUsually low risk
Additional spider profiles
Argiope protensa
Teardrop spider
A slender orb-weaver with a tapering abdomen, also called the tailed grass spider. Compare the tail, paired-leg posture and complete web.
Read identification guide →Idioctis species
Intertidal trapdoor spiders
Coastal Idioctis trapdoor spiders occupy retreats in the tidal zone. A shore location is essential to this comparison.
Read identification guide →Clubiona robusta
Stout sac spider
A small Clubiona hunter associated with bark and silk retreats. Its resting sac is shelter, rather than a prey-catching web.
Read identification guide →Poecilipta species
Poecilipta ant-mimicking spiders
Tiny, fast ground-running ant mimics with slender legs. Poecilipta belongs to Corinnidae, not the jumping-spider ant mimics.
Read identification guide →Troglodiplura lowryi
Nullarbor cave trapdoor spider
A rare blind cave spider from the Western Australian Nullarbor. A permanently dark cave habitat is required for this possibility.
Read identification guide →Anzacia gemmea
Silvery vagabond spider
Anzacia gemmea is a ground spider recorded from New Zealand and Phillip Island near Norfolk Island; it is not a confirmed mainland-wide species.
Read identification guide →Plesiothele fentoni
Lake Fenton trapdoor spider
A small Tasmanian mygalomorph with a patterned yellow-brown abdomen and a lidless silk-lined retreat in mossy habitat.
Read identification guide →Blakistonia aurea
Blakistonia aurea trapdoor spider
The Blakistonia species also called Adelaide trapdoor spider. It is distinct from Idiosoma subtriste, which shares that common name.
Read identification guide →Euoplos species
Armoured trapdoor spiders
Euoplos is a genus of Australian trapdoor spiders. Different species occupy separate regions, so this guide stays at group level.
Read identification guide →Idiosoma nigrum
Shieldbacked trapdoor spider
A Western Australian trapdoor spider with a hardened abdominal shield. The revised Idiosoma nigrum species must be separated from its close relatives.
Read identification guide →Arbanitis robertsi
Roberts tube spider
The NSW tube-building mygalomorph formerly called Misgolas robertsi. It is unrelated to the Ariadna tube-web spiders.
Read identification guide →Australomimetus species
Pirate spiders
Small spider-hunting mimetids that may enter another spider’s web. Rows of distinctive leg spines are a useful close-up clue.
Read identification guide →Miturga species
Lined spiders
Miturga are prowling hunters that can resemble wolf spiders. Some build dense silk retreats in low vegetation or beneath logs.
Read identification guide →Megadolomedes australianus
Giant water spider
A large NSW water-edge hunter. Current Megadolomedes australianus is distinct from the Queensland spider now called M. trux.
Read identification guide →Amyciaea albomaculata
Green tree ant-mimicking spider
An ant-mimicking crab spider associated with green tree ants. Its disguise and prey differ from those of ordinary flower spiders.
Read identification guide →Hedana species
Hedana green crab spiders
Small foliage-dwelling crab spiders in the genus Hedana. Green colour alone cannot separate them from other Australian thomisids.
Read identification guide →Zygometis xanthogaster
Yellow-tailed crab spider
A variable pale crab spider also called the milky flower spider. Females and much smaller males can look quite different.
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