Steatoda grossa
(False Black Widow)

Picture ID 7310

Picture of Steatoda grossa (False Black Widow) - Male - Dorsal
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ItsyBitsy

Hi, welcome to Spider ID. 🙂 This looks like it could be a male False Black Widow (Steatoda), I’m not certain of the exact species.

ItsyBitsy
storminateacup1

steatoda grossa

ItsyBitsy

I think you’re right. The way the triangles on the abdomen are deteriorated a bit in the middle gave me pause because that makes it start to look like other things. I saw a lot of Steatoda listed for Australia that I’m not familiar with but being Tasmania that narrows down the options. 🙂

storminateacup1

Its one of the spiders New Zealand and Australia share

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