The white-tailed spider is a common name to Lampona
Size:Females are average 0.7 in (18 mm) while males are 0.4 in (12 mm) with an average leg span of 1.1 in (28 mm).
Color: Both the species have similar colorations with a dark red to
Other Characteristic Features:The body is cigar-shaped.
Around 80-100 pinkish eggs are there in a single disc-shaped sac. The female waits and take care of them until they hatch.
Upon hatching, the juvenile spiders are dispersed into the air and start looking for food on their own.
They do not make any web and directly hunt down the prey.
White-tailed spiders can bite but the effect will be mild pain, skin discoloration with an itchy or burning sensation. It has wrongly been related to ulcer or necrosis for a long time, but that is entirely false as the bite is not detmiental in that extent. In the worst case scenario, the biting could result in vomiting, headache, and malaise but nothing more than that.
| Also known as | White-tail spider |
| Distribution | Eastern and southern Australia |
| Habitat | Leaf litter, garden, shoes, towels, and heap of clothes |
| Diet | Black house spiders, redback spiders, daddy-long-legs spiders, and curtain-web spiders |
| Lifespan | 1-20 years |
| IUCN Conservation Status | Not listed |
Image Credit: Biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au, Ozanimals.com, Australiangeographic.com.au, Media.australianmuseum.net.au,
Blog.tepapa.govt.nz, C1.staticflickr.com
The white-tailed spider is a common name to Lampona
Size:Females are average 0.7 in (18 mm) while males are 0.4 in (12 mm) with an average leg span of 1.1 in (28 mm).
Color: Both the species have similar colorations with a dark red to
Other Characteristic Features:The body is cigar-shaped.
Around 80-100 pinkish eggs are there in a single disc-shaped sac. The female waits and take care of them until they hatch.
Upon hatching, the juvenile spiders are dispersed into the air and start looking for food on their own.
They do not make any web and directly hunt down the prey.
White-tailed spiders can bite but the effect will be mild pain, skin discoloration with an itchy or burning sensation. It has wrongly been related to ulcer or necrosis for a long time, but that is entirely false as the bite is not detmiental in that extent. In the worst case scenario, the biting could result in vomiting, headache, and malaise but nothing more than that.
| Also known as | White-tail spider |
| Distribution | Eastern and southern Australia |
| Habitat | Leaf litter, garden, shoes, towels, and heap of clothes |
| Diet | Black house spiders, redback spiders, daddy-long-legs spiders, and curtain-web spiders |
| Lifespan | 1-20 years |
| IUCN Conservation Status | Not listed |
Image Credit: Biomedicalsciences.unimelb.edu.au, Ozanimals.com, Australiangeographic.com.au, Media.australianmuseum.net.au,
Blog.tepapa.govt.nz, C1.staticflickr.com
