huntsman spiders, which are considered harmless to humans, have been collected for use in at least two films. Very few New Zealand spiders have bites...

White-tailed spiders are spiders native to southern and eastern Australia, and so named because of the whitish tips at the end of their abdomens. The body...

2024-08-05. "Spider Facts: The Black House Spider". "Common neighbourhood spiders". Government of Western Australia. Preston-Mafham, Ken (1998). Spiders: Compact...

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species is one of New Zealand's most studied spiders. In New Zealand, the common name "tunnelweb spider" is also often used to refer to members of the genus...

large number of species both in New Zealand and worldwide. They are commonly known as tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders or comb-footed spiders. The common...

ranging from Eurasia to parts of North and South America, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Woodlouse spiders are usually found under logs, rocks...

Crosby, T.K (2001). "Avondale spider, our Hollywood star!". Insects and spiders of New Zealand/Aotearoa. Lincoln, New Zealand: Landcare Research. Archived...

white-banded house jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider in the family Salticidae. It is found in Australia and New Zealand. This species is easily...

when a spider mistakes a finger thrust into its web for its normal prey, but ordinarily intrusion by any large creature will cause these spiders to flee...

common house spider or American house spider, is a spider species of the genus Parasteatoda with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common house spiders are synanthropic...

Natural History of Australian Spiders (1st ed.). Reed New Holland. pp. 50–64. ISBN 9781876334277. Fairweather, Bill (2008). Spiders in New Zealand (1st ed.)...

Australia and New Zealand. This species was described in 1805 by Charles Walckenaer. It was most recently revised in 2015. Orange-legged swift spiders are mostly...

spider". Biosecurity New Zealand. Archived from the original on 2008-05-15. Retrieved 2008-06-12. Forster, Ray; Forster, Lyn (1999). Spiders Of New Zealand...

New Zealand sheet-web spider, is a species of spider in the family Desidae. These nocturnal, arboreal spiders are endemic to the North Island of New Zealand...

passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble nursery web spiders (family Pisauridae), but wolf spiders carry their egg sacs by attaching...

containing all nursery web spiders, has been estimated to contain over 300 species. Dolomedes minor can be found throughout New Zealand in various vegetation...

beneficial in parts of the world because it preys on other spiders, including species considered dangerous such as redback spiders. Pholcus phalangioides...

New Zealand is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island (Te Ika-a-Māui) and the South Island...

name New Zealand sheetweb spider, bush spider) is a spider genus in the family Desidae and some of the first endemic spiders described from New Zealand. They...

the grey house spider is a species of spiders in the family Desidae. Native to eastern Australia, it has been introduced into New Zealand, Japan, the United...

genus Palystes are known as rain spiders or lizard-eating spiders. Commonly, they are confused with baboon spiders from the Mygalomorphae infraorder...

jumping spider, is a common jumping spider (Salticidae) endemic to New Zealand and one of about 150 species of jumping spiders in New Zealand. Trite planiceps...

Forster, Raymond Robert; Wilton, Cecil Louis (1968-01-01). "The Spiders of New Zealand Part II: Ctenizidae, Dipluridae & Migidae" (PDF). Otago Museum bulletin...

1973". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-04-05. Forster, R. R.; Wilton, C. L. (1973). "The spiders of New Zealand. Part IV"...

or Maungahuka "Snowy mountains") are an archipelago of New Zealand, lying 465 km (289 mi) south of the South Island. The main Auckland Island, occupying...

undersides of citrus tree leaves during the day. Two-spined spiders are native to Australia, and were first noted in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1971. Since...

recover. Spiders of New Zealand Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Spelungula Forster, 1987". World Spider Catalog...

J.; Michel, P. (2020-01-01). "Conservation status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020" (PDF). New Zealand Threat Classification Series. 34: 1–37....

net-casting spider) is a species of net-casting spiders. It occurs in Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania) and in New Zealand. It is...