Image: Platform Spider, Corasoides australis
Description
Platform Spider, Corasoides australis.
- Photographer:
- Mike Gray
- Rights:
- © Australian Museum
- Common name:
- Platform spider
- Scientific name:
- Corasoides australis
Additional information
Web2spider Identification Guide. Web type: W28 - platform web.
- The platform spider lives in a burrow in which the platform opens out.
- Spiders will run on top of the sheet and will emerge to capture prey then has fallen on the sheet.
- A fine knockdown web above helps disorientate the prey and alert the spider.
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W28 - platform web View full size
Adapted from Spiders, B.Y. Main, 1976 by Helen Smith
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