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Saw this big lanky spider in a web attached to my house. He would come out each night and make his web in the same spot. Have never seen this type of spider before. No pictures on the internet either.
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- Submitted: Jan 14, 2021
- Photographed: Jan 3, 2021
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Melbourne, Australia
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
She’s (definitely female) an Orbweaver, probably in genus Eriophora or Neoscona. I couldn’t match her using “computer vision” either. The two genera I listed tend to be hairy with white markings and red femurs. The femur is the long leg segment closest to the body. The World Spider Catalog is a nonprofit work of all known spider species cataloged in one place. It is searchable online. Someone thankfully added its information to Wikipedia also. If you can guess a taxon, such as the genus, you can search it in Wikipedia or Wikispecies to see all of the species that comprise… Read more »