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==Predators and parasitoids== The black house spider (''[[Badumna insignis]]''), the cellar spider (''[[Pholcus phalangioides]]'') and the giant daddy-long-legs spider (''[[Artema atlanta]]'') are known to prey on the redback spider,<ref>{{cite web|title=Redback Spider|url=http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Spiders/Modern+Spiders+Infraorder+Araneomorphae/Redback+and+Brown+Widow+spiders/Redback+Spider|publisher=[[Queensland Museum]]|access-date=5 September 2013|archive-date=1 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130901163328/http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Spiders/Modern+Spiders+Infraorder+Araneomorphae/Redback+and+Brown+Widow+spiders/Redback+Spider|url-status=live}}</ref> and redbacks are often absent if these species are present in significant numbers.{{sfn|Sutherland|Tibballs|2001|p=387}} ''[[Agenioideus nigricornis]]'', a [[spider wasp]], is a [[parasitoid]] of the adult redback.<ref name=Krogmann/> Other [[Hymenoptera|wasps]] of the families [[Eurytomidae]] and [[Ichneumonidae]] parasitise redback eggs, and mantid lacewings ([[Mantispidae]]) prey on redback eggs.<ref name=Krogmann>{{cite journal |last1=Krogmann |first1=Lars |last2=Austin |first2=Andrew D.|year=2011 |title=Systematics of Australian ''Agenioideus'' Ashmead (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) with the First Record of a Spider Wasp Parasitizing ''Latrodectus hasselti'' Thorell (redback spider) |journal=Australian Journal of Entomology |volume=51 |issue=3 |pages=166β74 |doi=10.1111/j.1440-6055.2011.00850.x|doi-access=free }}</ref>
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