Snake-back Spider (Segestria senoculata)

 Spiders  Segestriidae - Six-eyed spiders 


iRecord 22/4/22
19 April 2022 Wooded area acrros from frog pond.

This is an attractively marked spider which gets the English name from the row of dark coloured patches on the elongated abdomen said to resemble the markings on some poisonous snakes, such as the adder. Males 6.5-7.5mm, females 7-10mm. Prosoma blackish, lighter behind, opisthosoma light grey brownish spotted with black, dorsally with a median lobed black band, ventrally without band.



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