Leucauge dromedaria
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| Humped silver orb spider | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Tetragnathidae |
| Genus: | Leucauge |
| Species: | L. dromedaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucauge dromedaria (Thorell, 1842) | |
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Leucauge dromedaria, the humped silver orb spider, is one of the long-jawed orb weaver spiders. A medium to large sized orb weaving spider, with a body length up to 15 mm long (female). Male to 6 mm. This species has a second pair of "humps" on the abdomen. Found in Australia, some south Pacific Islands and New Zealand. [1][2][3]
This species was described as Meta granulata in 1842 by Tamerlan Thorell.[4] It was most recently revised in 1917, in which it was moved to the Leucauge genus.[5]