web with calamistrated cribellate silk in a square-wave design, photographed by Reddit user bayouturtle (source)

bayouturtle, in a 2017 comment available on their profile page: “I took this pic on the north coast of Tasmania a couple weeks back thinking it was merely a mildly interesting spiders web. Never thought it would get this much publicity or that its origins were such a mystery.”

identified as Paramatachia sp. (Desidae) by arachnologists Piergiorgio Di Pompeo and Ethan Yeoman

[attn: @chthonic-cassandra]