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title: "Spotted Ground Swift Spider"
description: "Nyssus coloripes — Insects & spiders. Nyssus coloripes, known commonly in Australia as the orange-legged swift spider, but also as the spotted ground swift spider, the fleet footed spider and the painted swift spider, is a spider belonging to the family Corinnidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/spotted-ground-swift-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Spotted Ground Swift Spider

> Nyssus coloripes — Insects & spiders. Nyssus coloripes, known commonly in Australia as the orange-legged swift spider, but also as the spotted ground swift spider, the fleet footed spider and the painted swift spider, is a spider belonging to the family Corinnidae.

- Scientific name: *Nyssus coloripes*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 4729
- Wikidata: [Q27501976](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27501976)
- iNaturalist taxon: [466015](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/466015)

## Names

- en: Spotted Ground Swift Spider

## Countries with the most observations

AU (2933), NZ (1507)

## Summary

Nyssus coloripes, known commonly in Australia as the orange-legged swift spider, but also as the spotted ground swift spider, the fleet footed spider and the painted swift spider, is a spider belonging to the family Corinnidae. It is found commonly in Australia and New Zealand.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyssus_coloripes

## Photo

![Spotted Ground Swift Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/spotted-ground-swift-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Aleksandra Czerwońska · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/259747554

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/spotted-ground-swift-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).