Tetragnathids are elongated spiders with long legs and chelicerae weaving small orb webs with an open hub and few, wide-set radii and spirals. The common names 4-jawed spiders and long-jawed spiders are problematic, so we tend to refer to them as Tetragnathids. (The genus Nephila,a golden orb weaver, named after the golden tint of its silk, has been separated into its own family, Nephilidae.)
Leucauge decorata (Walckenaer, 1841) Decorative Silver Orb Spider
A medium to large, slender orb weaver with a silver back or upper surface of the abdomen and a striped green underneath of the abdomen, a long separation between the spinerets and the rear end of the abdomen, found in low vegetation, often grasses, from about 30cm to 2m above the ground in a... 
Leucauge granulata (Walckenaer, 1841) Roughened Silver Orb Spider
This Silver Orb Spider makes a small orb web in spaces between shrubs, the web typically being slanted (often nearly horizontal) rather than vertical. The spider rests under the centre of the web with its underside facing upwards, head towards the ground. Common in backyards, especially in moist...
Metine spiders Small Tetragnathids, subfamily Metinae
Metines are a group of rather obscure, often rainforest-dwelling and usually very small Tetragnathid spiders with roundish abdomens and long legs I...
Nanometa sp.
Nanometa has one described species in Australia N. gentilis Simon 1908 but researchers have referred to an undescribed South East Queensland...
Tetragnatha bituberculata
A spider in small webs associated with lush green vegetation along creek banks. Usually not noticed because of its habit of resting with legs...
Tetragnatha demissa
Tetragnatha demissa typically builds a small roughly circular web near water. Also found lying along dead twigs or strands of fencing wire with not...
Tetragnatha nitens?
Tetragnatha sp. Long-jawed Spiders (also known as Four-jawed Spiders) have enlarged jaws (chelicerae and fangs). They build horizontal or inclined...