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Australian jewel spider
Also commonly known as Christmas spider as usually seen in December, extending through to January.
Sure enough, I saw this one December 22nd just before Christmas.
Such beautiful little spiders, a type of orb weaver, endemic to this country.
This is a female. She is hanging upside down from a silk thread.
And they are tiny, she is around 10 mm in length.
The wide aperture created some great bokeh here from the dew.
"Austracantha" is a genus of spider with a single species, "Austracantha minax". It is a member of the family Araneidae and is endemic to Australia. They are relatively small spiders, reaching a maximum total body length of only around 12 mm for females, and 5 mm for males. Their abdomen has six distinctive projections that makes them easy to identify.
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