White-tailed spider
The White-tailed spider is a Lampona murina. It is in the Lamponidae family. The female is 16 mm long in body length while the male is only 12 mm long in body length. Their habitat includes houses usually in crevices and sheds. It eats other spiders but the black house spider is its main meal. They like to come out at night. When this spider bites a human, it could cause necrotising arachnidism.[1]
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| Species: | L. cylindrata
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| Lampona cylindrata L. Koch, 1866
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White-tailed Spider Media
L. cylindrata male specimen on display in the Australian Museum
L. cylindrata female specimen on display in the Australian Museum
L. cylindrata – face detail with fangs
References
- ↑ "Necrotising arachnidism". Australian Venom Research Unit. 2013. Retrieved 11 February 2013.