Fat Orb Weaver
Pregnant, Front
Ellura
Fat Orb Weaver
Pregnant, dorsal
 
                      
Fat Orb Weaver (Zealaranea cf crassa)Class: Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)
Order: Spiders (Araneae)
Family: Orb-weaver Spider (Araneidae)
Species: Fat Orb Weaver (Zealaranea cf crassa)
This Photo:     Pregnant, Front Under

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
A very strange medium sized spider. 2 horned, or 2 spined, and pregnant.
Reddish brown, with it's legs well tucked up.
Looks like a gall. Has a white / yellow / pale stripe all around. It's also faintly two tone with the stripe making the letter "U", or "V", on it's back; separating the 2 tones.
It's perched on a Hakea Wattle (Acacia hakeoides).

Copyright © 2012-2024 Brett & Marie Smith. All Rights Reserved. Photographed 07-Oct-2012
This species is an Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.