Animals

Order Scorpiones – forest- and wood-dwelling scorpions (e.g. Heterometrus spp., Cercophonius squama)

Wood or Forest Scorpions are not a single species but a loose group of scorp···

Lycosidae (wolf spider family)

Wolf spiders are members of the family Lycosidae, a large group of ground-dw···

Lampona cylindrata and Lampona murina (family Lamponidae)

The White-tailed Spider is the common name for a small group of spiders with···

Cryptachaea gigantipes (Keyserling, 1890)

The White Porch Spider is the common name for Cryptachaea gigantipes, a smal···

Order Amblypygi (whip spiders / tailless whip scorpions)

Whip spiders, also known as tailless whip scorpions, belong to the arachnid ···

Argyroneta aquatica (Clerck, 1757)

The Water Spider, more precisely the Diving Bell Spider,refers to the specie···

Poecilopachys australasia (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)

The Two-spined Spider is the common name for Poecilopachys australasia, a sm···

Primarily family Segestriidae and related tube-dwelling spiders

Tube spiders is a common name for spiders that build tube-like silken retrea···

Arkyidae, especially genus Arkys (representative triangular spider group)

Triangular spiders is an informal name for a group of small spiders that hav···

Idiopidae and related trapdoor spider families (representative group)

Trapdoor spiders are a broad group of small to medium sized mygalomorph spid···

Hickmania troglodytes

The Tasmanian Cave Spider is a distinctive large cave and forest dwelling sp···

Atrax robustus O. P. Cambridge, 1877

The Sydney Funnel-web Spider is one of the best known highly venomous spider···

Arbanitis rapax (representative brown trapdoor spider from the Sydney region)

The Sydney Brown Trapdoor Spider is a medium sized, burrow dwelling mygalomo···

Nyssus coloripes (representative species of the swift spiders group)

Swift Spiders are a group of small, fast moving ground spiders best known fr···

Argiope keyserlingi (and closely related cross-marked Argiope species)

The St Andrews Cross Spider is a striking orb-weaver best known for the bold···

Atrax montanus Rainbow, 1914

The Southern Sydney Funnel-web Spider (Atrax montanus) is a large,highly ven···

Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch, 1838

The Slater-eating Spider is a ground-dwelling hunting spider that specialise···

Mainly family Araneidae (silver-patterned orb-weaving spiders such as some Argiope and Leucauge species)

Silver orb-weaving spiders are not a single species but a loose group oforb-···

Order Scorpiones

Scorpions are arachnids in the order Scorpiones and represent one of the old···

Cheiracanthiidae (notably the genus Cheiracanthium)

Sac spiders are a broad group of spiders that build small silken retreats or···

Asianopis subrufa (formerly Deinopis subrufa)

The Rufous Net-casting Spider (Asianopis subrufa, long known under theolder ···

Missulena occatoria

The Red-headed Mouse Spider (Missulena occatoria) is a large Australian mous···

Latrodectus hasselti

The Redback Spider (Latrodectus hasselti) is one of Australia’s best-known ···

Atrax christenseni

The Newcastle funnel-web spider (Atrax christenseni), nicknamed“Big Boy”, ···

Deinopidae (e.g. Deinopis, Menneus)

Net-casting spiders are remarkable predators in the family Deinopidae. Inste···

Missulena (e.g. Missulena bradleyi)

Mouse spiders are mygalomorph spiders of the genus Missulena, found mainly i···

Lychas marmoreus

The Marbled Scorpion commonly refers to small Australian scorpions with a mo···

Ordgarius magnificus

The Magnificent Spider (Ordgarius magnificus) is a striking bolas spider in ···

Oxyopidae (e.g. Oxyopes, Peucetia)

Lynx spiders are active hunting spiders belonging to the family Oxyopidae.Th···

Araneidae (e.g. Phonognatha spp.)

Leaf-curling spiders are orb-weaving spiders that curl a leaf into a shelter···