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===Common names=== The common name "redback" is derived from the distinctive red stripe along the dorsal aspect of its abdomen. Other common names include red-striped spider,<ref name=SMH1907/> red-spot spider, jockey spider,<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article41605415 |title=Poisonous Spiders |newspaper=[[The West Australian]] |location=Perth |date=8 January 1938 |page=19 |publisher=National Library of Australia |access-date=13 September 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211019062746/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41605415 |url-status=live }}</ref> Murra-ngura spider, Kapara spider and the Kanna-jeri spider.<ref>{{cite book|editor1=Platnick, N. |editor2=Merrett, P. |editor3=Brignoli, P. M. | year=1990| title=Advances in Spider Taxonomy, 1981β1987. A Supplement to Brignoli's "a Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940β1981" | publisher=Manchester University Press | location=Manchester, United Kingdom| isbn=0-7190-2782-9 }}</ref>
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