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FAMILY OXYOPIDAE - Lynx Spiders
This page contains pictures and information about Lynx Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
- Oxyopes sp., leg to leg 20mm
- Lynx Spiders are long legs spiders, small in size. The spiders are common in Brisbane garden. They do not build web but hunt small insects on plants.
- Lynx Spiders have very good vision, with eight eyes, in the pattern four rows of two. The above pictures, left picture shows a female and right picture shows a male. The male has larger pedipalps, which are used for transferring sperm during mating.
- Lynx Spiders can be found in tree or on grass, usually on the top of the plants. They move actively in day time hunting small insects. They have a long body and long thin legs. Legs are covered with long spines. They are colourful with green-yellow, silver and brown bands along their bodies. They hunt in the ways like a cat, i.e., slowly approach the prey and suddenly jump to it. So the spiders have their name Lynx.
- 14/03/2001 27/03/2001
- Lynx Spider showing its parental care, guarding her eggs, two weeks later, guarding her children. This is common in the spider world. Lynx Spiders do not build web nor retreat but make egg sac on leaves.
