Badumna insignis

Black House Spider at Black Range, NSW

Badumna insignis at Black Range, NSW - 11 Sep 2020 03:30 PM
Badumna insignis at Black Range, NSW - 11 Sep 2020 03:30 PM
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Identification history

Badumna insignis 18 Oct 2020 KimPullen
Badumna insignis 12 Sep 2020 Harrisi
Unidentified 11 Sep 2020 StephH

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User's notes

This small living spider has made its web on the mud nest made by a wasp under our birdbath. You can see a dead or paralysed grey spider (possibly a small wolf spider) still partly enclosed in the clay on the right in the first pic. It's a case of a spider using the nest of a wasp who, in turn, used other spiders as food for its growing young.

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StephH wrote:
   12 Sep 2020
Thanks Harrisi. Yes, that looks like the living spider In the photo.

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Sighting information

Species information

  • Badumna insignis Scientific name
  • Black House Spider Common name
  • Not Sensitive
  • Local native
  • Non-invasive or negligible
  • Up to 840m Recorded at altitude
  • Machine learning
  • External link More information
  • Synonyms

    Amaurobius robustus Ixeuticus robustus
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