V-shape Bark Spider
Size 7mm in total. Missing two legs on left side when I found it on a wooden plank under a tree. I am quite confident that it belongs to Theridiidae. I could not find an exact match. http://www.arachne.org.au/01_cms/details.asp?ID=2132 brought me onto the genus Emertonella. It does not exist in ALA. GBIF shows Australian biodata stored in Australian museums. I have not followed up on what taxon ALA uses for this genus. After all, this might be a different species. It is distinctively black, legs transparent near waist, V-shape on its abdomen in beautiful colour. Update 30/4/2017: ALA is actually collecting data of this species on the taxon Euryopis splendens. Unfortunately, http://www.arachne.org.au does not clarify. The website find-a-spider alludes to some uncertainty with regards to Emertonella versus Euryopis back in 2013. Probably, the species is now Emertonella, but: nobody knows about it if knowledge is not shared publicly with important resources. I assume that ALA will be notified soon, and we will see a change. Feel free to notify me when it happens, so I can update here. Update 29/11/2017: ALA now collects this species in two different taxa. There is now a record of it in the genus Hadrotarsus. arachne.org.au also seems to have updated information. Euryopsis according to them looks totally different. Well, it is black, too, is small and has eight legs. This species must be extremely common in SE Queensland. It is more often found than documented. I delete the reference to Euryopsis splendens completely (and would suggest ALA sorts their records). I might follow the vernacular name (which I made up), follow http://www.arachne.org.au and call it Bark-dwelling Emertonella.
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