Habronestes
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Habronestes is an ant-eating spider genus that occurs only in Australia
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Spiders in this genus are 2.5 to 10.5 mm long, with an orange or sepia brown body and yellow or pale brown legs.
H. boq is the first spider named after a sponsor (the Bank of Queensland
) in a new program by the Queensland Museum
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
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Spiders in this genus are 2.5 to 10.5 mm long, with an orange or sepia brown body and yellow or pale brown legs.
H. boq is the first spider named after a sponsor (the Bank of Queensland
Bank of Queensland
Bank of Queensland , one of the oldest financial institutions in Queensland, Australia, is a retail bank with a network of almost 270 branches, including 152 in Queensland, 52 in New South Wales, 23 in Victoria and 34 in Western Australia. Following the Home Building Society and Pioneer mergers,...
) in a new program by the Queensland Museum
Queensland Museum
The Queensland Museum is the state museum of Queensland. The museum currently operates four separate campuses; at South Brisbane, Ipswich, Toowoomba and Townsville.The museum is funded by the State Government of Queensland.-History:...
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Species
- Habronestes australiensis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) (Australia)
- Habronestes bicornis Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes bradleyiHabronestes bradleyiHabronestes bradleyi is a spider species of the Zodariidae family.Like most Zodariidae, H. bradleyi is an ant-eating spider. It detects the alarm pheromone of ants to locate them. It raises its forelegs, which contain the chemoreceptors to detect the pheromone. However, they themselves also mimic...
(O. P.-Cambridge, 1869) (Australia) - Habronestes calamitosus Jocqué, 1995 (Queensland)
- Habronestes driscolli Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes giganteus Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes grahami Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
- Habronestes grayi Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes grimwadei (Dunn, 1951) (Australia)
- Habronestes hamatus Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes hebroni Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes helenae Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes hunti Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes jocquei Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes longiconductor Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes macedonensis (Hogg, 1900) (New South Wales, Victoria)
- Habronestes minor Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes monocornis Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes piccolo Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes pictus (L. Koch, 1865) (New South Wales, Australian Capital Territory)
- Habronestes pseudoaustraliensis Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes raveni Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes rawlinsoni Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes striatipes L. Koch, 1872 (Queensland)
- Habronestes toddi (Hickman, 1944) (Northern Territory)
- Habronestes ungari Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes weelahensis Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)
- Habronestes wilkiei Baehr, 2003 (New South Wales)