A male Cyrtophora cylindroides from Singapore - I was thoroughly confused when I found it in a space web (perhaps I could be excused for fruitlessly scouring Theridiid literature until @kalakemangga.bsky.social corrected me).
Quite happy with the shot!
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Two new species of cobweb spiders are described from Sumatra, Indonesia. Find out more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/evol...
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Nyctimus rendang Dhiyaβulhaq & Benjamin, sp. nov.
"The epithet refers to a meat dish associated with the cuisine of the Minangkabau people from West Sumatra. The meat is slow-cooked in a plethora of spices, giving it a dark colouration."
another top tier name from @kalakemangga.bsky.social lmao
A collection of crab spiders from Indonesia's Jambi Province revealed five new species and one new genus. See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
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Behold!
Eleven new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sumatra by @kalakemangga.bsky.social
Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
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Youre welcome. I think i have thought that it looks similar to Araneus stella, but again the spines are weird
Has anyone seen and identified these large (~10mm) male araneids before? Longitudinal fovea, shoulder horns and stout tibia II with a distal pair of spines.
Not many araneids have large males so that narrows down quite a bit. Specimens found in Singapore.
I do have a male specimen from Java. It looks like it "might" be similar to Araneus s.s., but the way the spines look (esp. what appears to be the mating spine) made me wonder if this is just superficial and instead closer to australasian backobourkines
Literally comb-footed spider
Ending 2024 with hadrotarsines.
Cute little fuckers
ΕezΓ‘Δ, M. (2009). The spider Harpactea sadistica: co-evolution of traumatic insemination and complex female genital morphology in spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 276: 2697-2701. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0104
Just realized how smaller it is so probably not D. gigas but something with similar coloration
Just identified this observation as Serendib, a rather rare ant-mimicking corinnid spider. This particular one seem to be mimicking D. gigas, but with its abdomen as the head
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Youre welcome!
They are absolutely gigantic!
a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.
Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
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Sketch of male pedipalp of an unknown spider (Theridiidae?) from inside houses, Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Any spider people out there recognize this palp? Theridiid (presumably) from corners of walls etc. Inside houses, Colombo, Sri Lanka. A small sketch in a stack of old drawings, 1980s. Must surely be a well known & widely distributed synanthropic spider. Sorry, no habitus sketch or other info.
Absolute unit of a wolf spider. Large lycosids seem to be not as common in Southeast Asia as they are elsewhere. Perhaps in competition with ctenids?
Undescribed Katya from Bali. The genus is (so far) endemic to Indonesia, found on the mountains of Java to Lesser Sundas
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Aint no one gonna tell me Dolomedes will be split from Pisauridae? This is huge
"The genus Titanidiops in South-east Asia" by Schwendinger, Huber & Hongpadharakiree (2024)"
The family Idiopidae is now formally recorded in Indonesia with Titanidiops insularis (but might in fact be a separate, cryptic species from the Thai holotype)
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Illustration from Brehms' Tierleben Bd.2 (1911) showcasing some spiders from Java.
There are 4 well-known species here: Nephila pilipes, Macracantha arcuata, Platythomisus octomaculatus, and Argiope catenulata (missidentified as Nephila antipodiana)
iNaturalist βgreen birdβ logo sticker on palm of hand.
I feel Iβve waited all my life for iNaturalist.
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Some beautiful Torajan Tongkonan from Rantepao, South Sulawesi
Interlocking chelicerae of a mating Tetragnatha hasselti pair
My first time being part of a published article! Everything about Dolomedes in one place. I wrote the section on parental care. π·οΈ
I am very grateful to all of the collaborators on this paper especially Dr. Chrissie Painting and my advisor Eileen.
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Would certainly love to be included!
iNat spider identifier rite of passage (that I've just declared): Went through all of the observations currently saying "Arachnida" to see if I can contribute anything - and could a number of times. Identified an observation as a short-tailed whipscorpion yesterday that no one had made sense of yet.
