The legs are long and robust, clad with spines and hairs and banded in brown and yellow.

The male has a more drab appearance, having a dark brown cephalothorax and lacking the stripes found in the female.

Juveniles tend to stay in a wider variety of habitats, where sub-adults and adults live primarily in garden areas and roadside drains and domestic sewage.

[citation needed] The female builds a web with a zig-zag stabilimentum and positions itself head-down in the centre.

[2] A male wishing to mate with the female employs certain courtship behaviours including vibrating its web.