Caves attract spiders of many different families. Whereas many use the cave for shelter and for breeding, others can only survive there (i.e. they are troglobites).
This ctenid spider, Bengalla bertmaini, is found only in caves of the Cape Range. We can tell it is troglobitic because it has no eyes.
Also a troglobite collected from a Cape Range cave, this specimen may be a new species of the genus Bengalla.
The skull or cellar spider (Pholcus phalangioides), photographed at Yanchep.
Pholcus phalangioides in a cave with its egg sack.
Baiami volucripes in a cave near Cervantes. Note the palps or ‘boxing gloves’ which tell us this is a male specimen.
Spider of the family Pisauridae in a Yanchep cave.
Unidentified spider - cave in the Napier Range, West Kimberley.
Family Uloboridae (?) - cave in the Napier Range, West Kimberley.
Family Sparassidae - cave in the Napier Range, West Kimberley.
Family Miturgidae - cave in the Napier Range, West Kimberley.
Recently hatched spiderlings in a south-west cave.
