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Horizontal Orbweb Spider

Leucauge dromedaria

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) mattmaceac, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

Study shows up to four per card, from different observers, so you learn the species rather than one picture. Heart the good ones and swap any you do not like.

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Easily confused with

Study checks a spoken answer against these, and tells you which one you named.

Where it is recorded

Records by month in Australia.January 389, February 217, March 327, April 348, May 243, June 141, July 93, August 176, September 227, October 322, November 421, December 420.
Australia3,324
New South Wales1,655
Queensland1,410
New Zealand679
Auckland Region273
Victoria195
Waikato Region111
Northland Region84
Bay of Plenty Region62
Western Australia40

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyLong-jawed Orbweavers · Tetragnathidae
GenusOrchard Spiders and Allies · Leucauge

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Horizontal Orbweb Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.