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Episinus spp.

Episinus is a rich spider genus species, occurring worlwide, with many species. Episinus bicornis (Thorell, 1881) is known from Queensland. This may be what we call the 'Common' Episinus that we see frequently. The 2004 Brisbane Terrestrial Invertebrate Review (QM, & BCC) recorded another species not E. bicornis (undescribed) and there may be more.

Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 from side


This Theridiid body length about 6mm seems to resemble the Episinus in Ramon Mascord's Australian Spiders 1980 Plate 20 p. 59.

Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 from above, facing down


Episinus sp
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Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 from behiond, closeup


Episinus sp
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Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 showing underneath


Episinus sp
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Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 male, facing


A fairly well developed but probably not yet fully adult male.

Episinus sp male
Photo: Robert Whyte

Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 male, side On


Episinus sp male
Photo: Robert Whyte

Juvenile male, or another species?


Quite a variation here for this sub-adult male collected on the creek near SOWN shed Latitude: 27.451319šS Longitude: 152.950831šE Altitude:36 ft.

Episinus sp male
Photo: Robert Whyte

Juvenile male 2, or another species?


A small Theridiid, body length 3mm, collected 6 August 2009 in a patch of good quality remant dry rainforest known as "The Island" on the northern side of the junction of Fish and Enoggera Creeks, Walton Bridge Reserve, The Gap. Thanks to Greg Anderson for confirming ID.

Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Female, possibly pregnant, from above


Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Female, possibly pregnant, from side


Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Female, brown, triangular


Probably the same species.

Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Another subadult male, face on


Episinus sp
Photo: Robert Whyte

Green Ant-mimicking Episinus female from above


Theridiidae > Episinus? collected 8 June 2009, the spider wandering on bark on a weedy hillside of mostly acacia and eucalypt, some clerodendrum, UBD map 178 C2-C3. Dark female with black and white banded legs. Leg III shorter. Body looked pitted and somewhat iridescent like that of a green ant, body length about 3mm, triangular abdomen with two lateral knobs.

Episinus bicornis?

Green ant mimicking Episinus female from side


Episinus bicornis?

Episinus Mascord 1980 p. 59 male, Chapel Hill


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