Miagrammopes sp Green Rainforest Miagrammopes

Female upside down on leaf
Female upside down on leaf
Female from side closeup
Back legs showing calimustrum
Back legs showing calimustrum
From side legs up on leaf
From side, flat outstretched on leaf

A slender and attractively coloured Uloborid quite common in the rainforest at Mount Glorious. These are cribellate spiders, meaning they have a cribellum to produce woolly silk which they comb out with the help of the calimustrum. Like some other spiders they resemble a terrestrial squid.