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Sheetweb Spiders
Cambridgea
Cambridgea (common name New Zealand sheetweb spider, bush spider) is a spider genus in the family Desidae and some of the first endemic spiders described from New Zealand. They are known for constructing large horizontal sheet webs measuring up to a square metre in larger species. Cambridgea were originally assigned to the Agelenidae by Dalmas in 1917 but were reassigned to the Stiphidiidae in 1973. Most recently, both Cambridgea and sister genus Nanocambridgea were reassigned to the Desidae, subfamily Porteriinae on the basis of molecular evidence.
31 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Bush Spider
speciesCambridgea foliata
Cambridgea plagiata
speciesCambridgea plagiata
Cambridgea inaequalis
speciesCambridgea inaequalis
Cambridgea quadromaculata
speciesCambridgea quadromaculata
Cambridgea annulata
speciesCambridgea annulata
Cambridgea fasciata
speciesCambridgea fasciata
Cambridgea ambigua
speciesCambridgea ambigua
Cambridgea mercurialis
speciesCambridgea mercurialis
Cambridgea antipodiana
speciesCambridgea antipodiana
Cambridgea obscura
speciesCambridgea obscura
Cambridgea secunda
speciesCambridgea secunda
Cambridgea agrestis
speciesCambridgea agrestis
Cambridgea arboricola
speciesCambridgea arboricola
Cambridgea peelensis
speciesCambridgea peelensis
Cambridgea insulana
speciesCambridgea insulana
Cambridgea pallidula
speciesCambridgea pallidula
Cambridgea sylvatica
speciesCambridgea sylvatica
Cambridgea peculiaris
speciesCambridgea peculiaris
Cambridgea occidentalis
speciesCambridgea occidentalis
Cambridgea australis
speciesCambridgea australis
Cambridgea elegans
speciesCambridgea elegans
Cambridgea elongata
speciesCambridgea elongata
Cambridgea ramsayi
speciesCambridgea ramsayi
Cambridgea longipes
speciesCambridgea longipes
Cambridgea tuiae
speciesCambridgea tuiae
Cambridgea turbotti
speciesCambridgea turbotti
Cambridgea simoni
speciesCambridgea simoni
Cambridgea solanderensis
speciesCambridgea solanderensis
Cambridgea ordishi
speciesCambridgea ordishi
Cambridgea reinga
speciesCambridgea reinga
Cambridgea decorata
speciesCambridgea decorata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 374357.