Mutant Red Back Spider

[circumpolar (Matt)]

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 (Jeanette)]

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 (Marc)]

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 (Geoff)]

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] (Paul)]

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

[Starkler (Geoff)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

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

Heres another

Well I learned something new today.

[telecasterguru (Frank)]

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

[trent_julie]

They all look the same under an ill tempered thong

[circumpolar (Matt)]

Originally Posted by [1ponders]

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

Originally Posted by Starkler

Heres another

Well I learned something new today.

Thanks guys.
Something new every day.