Spiders

Daintree Rainforest is habitat to giant Golden Orb-weavers, Brush-footed Trapdoors, Ant-mimicking Spiders, Bird-dung Crab Spiders and an amazing diversity of other arachnids, as listed (below).  Because of the web requirements that penalise key-words exceeding 2.5% of a page’s word content and the convention of naming so many spiders with the word spider incorporated, SPDR will substitute to avoid over-use.

Daintree Rainforest Spiders – Arachnida

Araneae

Myglamorphae (Trapdoor SPDR, Funnel-webs, etc)

Theraphosidae

North Queensland (Whistling) Tarantula (Phlogius crassipes)

Araneomorphae

Haplogynae

Pholcidae (Daddy Long-leg SPDR)

Entelegynae

Orbiculariae

Araneidae

Arachnura

Scorpion-tail SPDR – Arachnura caudatella (Roewer, 1955)

Argiope

St. Andrew’s Cross SPDR (Argiope keyserlingi)

Cyclosa

Long Lobed SPDR (Cyclosa bifida)

Gasteracantha

Northern Jewelled SPDR (Gasteracantha fornicata)

Poecilopachys

Two-spined SPDR (Poecilopachys australaisia)

Poltys

Tree-stump Orb-weaver (Poltys illepidus)

Twig-mimicking Orb-weaver (Poltys noblei)

Twig-stump Orb-weaver (Poltys laciniosus)

Deinopidae

Avella

Net-casting SPDR (Avella angulata)

Deinopis

Net-casting SPDR (Deinopis subrufa)

Nephilidae

Nephila

Golden Orb-web SPDR (Nephila pilipes)

Tetragnathidae

Long-jawed SPDR (Tetragnatha nitens)

Long-jawed SPDR (Tetragnatha rubriventris)

Uloboridae

Feather-legged SPDR (Miagrammopes caudata)

Dionycha

Lamponidae

Undescribed Lampona species (Lampona sp.)

Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

Spartaeinae

Portia

Fringed Jumping SPDR (Portia fimbriata)

Salticoida

Amycoida

Heliophaninae

Jumping SPDR (Cosmophasis micaroides)

Plexippinae

Mopsus

Green Jumping SPDR (Mopsus mormon)

Sparassidae (Huntsmen SPDR)

Brown Huntsman SPDR (Heteropoda cervinia)

Lichen SPDR (Pandercetes gracilis)

Tiger Huntsman (Typostola sp.)

Tiger Huntsman (Typostola sp.)

Thomisidae (Crab SPDR)

Bird Dung Crab SPDR (Phrynarachne decipiens)

Bird Dung Crab SPDRr (Phrynarachne tuberculata)

Crab SPDR (Stephanopis sp.)

Large Bark Crab SPDR (Stephanopis cambridgei)

Cryptic Crab SPDR (Stephanopis pustulosa)

Green Tree Ant-mimicking SPDR (Amyciaea albomaculata)

Ornate Crab SPDR (Poecilothomisus speciosus)

Lycosoidea (Wolf & Lynx SPDRs)

Lycosidae (Wolf SPDR)

Wolf SPDR (Lycosa sp.)

Oxyopidae (Lynx SPDR)

Pisauridae (Nursery-web SPDR, fishing SPDR)

Giant Water SPDR (Megadolomedes australianus)

Green Water SPDR (Hygropoda lineata)

Zoridae

Ant SPDR (Penterasteron sp.)

Acari (Mites & Ticks)

Scrub Tick

Opiliones (harvestmen)

Scorpionida

Scorpiones

Buthoidea

Buthidae

Isometrus

Lesser Brown Scorpion (Isometrus maculatus)