
Orange-legged swift Spider - female (Nyssus coloripes)
A fast moving attractive spider with black cephalothorax and abdomen, black and white banded hind legs and orange front legs. The body had white patterns along the sides, a median white line on the cephalothorax and broken white pattern along the midline of the abdomen.
Its behaviour and erratic movements are a mimicry of the pompilid wasp (spider hunters) - the orange legs move up and down like the orange antennae of the wasps.
This species is seen throughout mainland Australia and Tasmania.

Nyssus coloripes is one of the fastest spiders in Australia. While running, it waves its two (often orange) forelegs above its body, mimicking the antennae of a wasp.