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Theridion pyramidale
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Theridion pyramidale (RM) (but more likely to qualify as an Achaearanea species)
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female: 4.5 mm
male: 3 mm
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This species builds a small tangled web among shrubs in eucalypt forests; this web usually is not connected with the ground, unlike some web-building theridiids
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This species may be too small to cause a serious human illness
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Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Theridion species, Theridion species (?), and Thwaitesia nigronodosa.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 31 July 2009.
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