Araneidae – Cyclosa fuliginata – Sooty Orb-weaver

Class Arachnida; Order Araneae; Infraorder Araneomorphae; Family Araneidae (Orb-weavers); Scientific name: Cyclosa fuliginata; Common name: Sooty Orb-weaver – Female - Distribution in Australia: south-western Western Australia, south-eastern South Australia, throughout Victoria, Tasmania and New South Wales, and in south-eastern Queensland - Photographed: in November in Starvation Harbour east of Hopetoun, Western Australia.