Unknown theridiid species

Fact Box Species: Unknown theridiid species (QM) Family: Theridiidae Body length: female: about 4 mm male: 3.5 mm Habitat: This species typically males a small tangled web and associated retreat on the underside of large pieces of eucalypt bark that are lying in forest leaf litter Toxicity: This species is too small to cause a human envenomation

View from above Female from front Underneath spiders

The presence of five short but stout spines on the underside of an outer segment of the first pair of legs on the male (only) a useful identifying feature of this species.

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Many small spiders with an 'average' body shape.