Mutant Red Back Spider

[circumpolar]

Has anyone seen a Red Back Spider like this one.
Like everyone else, I have many normal coloured ones around my house but this one seems to be in camouflage with my house bricks.

[jjjnettie]

Isn't she beautiful though!

How about sending your pics to the Inquiry Centre at the QLD Museum Inquiry@qm.qld.gov.au
and see what they have to say.

[multiweb]

Maybe it's an albinos type? Although I don't know if the condition exists in the insects group but it looks like the colors are inverted. Black vs. white anyway.

[Starkler]

I have also seen mutant colouration on redback spiders at my place.
Again a creamy colour abdomen but with a number of lines surrounding the red stripe at increasing distance.
Strange huh?

[[1ponders]]

Its a juvenile normal redback by the look of it. They don't come fully black until mature

[Starkler]

Heres another (http://davesgarden.com/guides/bf/showimage/9354/&usg=__qmap9-j0faD1Th9dpNZ1xlS1U6E=&h=537&w=800&sz=119&hl=en&start=43&itbs=1&tbnid=c546_VTopcO5SM:&tbnh=96&tbnw=143&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dredback%2Bspider%26sta rt%3D40%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa %3DN%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D20%26tbs%3D isch:1)

Well I learned something new today.

[telecasterguru]

Are they called a pink back spider until they grow up?

[trent_julie]

They all look the same under an ill tempered thong

[circumpolar]

Thanks guys.
Something new every day.:)