This is a non-native spider of Australian origin, but which has been
accidentally imported to a number of countries worldwide, including
several countries in South America, South Africa, Japan, the USA and
Europe (Germany). Other UK records are hard to track down, but the one
illustrated here was one of three specimens found on shrubs at a garden
centre near Southwell in early October 2021, but it has since been
recorded at two more Nottinghamshire garden centres.
Badumna longinqua builds a loose and rather untidy cribellate web
at the top of small shrubs in it's country of origin, and this was
exactly the case for this record, with the webs being found on Magnolias
for sale in a cool greenhouse, but webs at one garden centre were built
on the supports and frames of a cool greenhouse. |
