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A little pseudoscorpion with large reddish claws held tucked up and pulled back against its sides. The pseudoscorpion is on a dark grey piece of old roof slate and is facing left. Its body is a pale yellowy-brown colour.

A little pseudoscorpion with large reddish claws held out in front of it as it walks off to the left on a dark grey piece of old roof slate. Its body is a pale yellowy-brown colour and the legs are almost transparent. It has just one pair of eyes (several other species have 2 pairs, some have none).

Pseudoscorpions have been a bit thin on the ground lately, I've drawn a blank at 8 churchyards in a row now so finding this little Roncus lubricus on yesterday's bike ride was even more special than usual. Only 3rd one I've found.

That’s good!

1½ minutes worth of Brown Creeper lad, creeping 🥹

I'd seen a grand total of one (1) adult male Attidops cinctipes before this afternoon, in which I lost count at a dozen 🤎
#EmotionalSupportSpood #Arachtober

Spooky season seems like a good time to learn about spiders and their relatives

Top!!

Grey wolf spider poking out her burrow in the sand to peer sternly at you

#EmotionalSupportSpood (Geolycosa mood) 🖤

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

A velvet worm side profile

!. Look at this astonishing animal. My velvet worm friend lives on moss in the rainforest. He is ANCIENT. WAY older than dinosaurs, lobopods like him even make an appearance in the Cambrian- when multicellular life became trendy.

You can find him today on a tree at Wildsumaco, in Ecuador :)

Wallace’s day at Museu Goeldi!

Hey! I’d like to join! 🥳🕷️ 🇧🇷 🇨🇴 🇺🇸

Arachnology students gathered at night for collecting arachnids

Are you a student interested in Arachnology? Join our annual virtual student social is happening soon!

🕸️WHEN🕸️
Sunday, June 8, 6:30pm CST

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AAS student Discord

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o artista virou a arte

Wiley Publication Workshop in Belém 🤓

Wonderful weevils and mimic on @bsky.app
Part II, Pachyrhynchus moniliferus, from The Philippines. Another colour variation. Striking patterns warn for posion. Found in old stable ecosystems. Hence much more vulnerable to deforestation and habitat fragmentation. #natureprotection #coleoptera #beetle

A woodpecker perched on a bare branch. She has a white chest and belly, red near the beak and on the nape of the neck, bald and white wing feathers, and pointy black and white tail feathers.

Lady Red-bellied Woodpecker on a wintry day. It's interesting being able to see those pointy tail feathers. The feathers, along with a strong lower back, help prop up the woodpecker while it is clinging and moving vertically on the side of a tree.

Dorsal view of Raninoides benedicti alone on black background. Photo by Arthur Anker. Very elongate, carapace at least 2x as long as wide, true crab. Small abdomen is sticking straight out the back. Claws look like wrenches and multiple distal segments of the legs look like spades. Crab is brown with orangeish mottling. Limbs have blue edges. https://www.crabdatabase.info/en/crabs/brachyura/podotremata/raninoidea/raninidae-4

Plate of colorful raninid crabs including the same image of Raninoides benedicti. Shows the variations within the "family" of frog crabs. Lyreididae. a, Lyreidus tridentatus; b, Lysirude channeri . Raninidae. c, Cosmonotus grayii; d, Flaberhina balabacensis; e, Notopus dorsipes; f, Ranilia muricata; g, Ranina ranina; h, Raninoides benedicti; i, Raninoides lamarcki; j, Symethis variolosa; k, Umalia misakiensis. Plate 39: https://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7895/

Psst: carcinization is not inevitable!

R is for Raninoides, one of the best examples of DEcarcinization. It's a true crab, but its body is elongated and the abdomen sticks out. The wrench and spadelike appendages, and torpedolike body, are good for burrowing (see video, next skeet)

#CrabAZ 🦀🧪🦑

A red and gray longhorn beetle crawling on white, shown vertically so that a gray patch looks like a heart. It has three of these patches. Outside the beetle it has an "I' to the left and a "U' to the right to say I heart U. An insect message says "but mostly Saperda tridentata loves elms"

Happy Valentine's Day! 🌹❤️

Here's my requisite heart-shaped-structure-or-color-on-arthropod pic. Very nice species.

#Cerambycidae: #Saperda tridentata
North Carolina, USA

A spider with iridescent green fangs and tan-brown legs and arms and black eyelashes, stands on some brown moss. It's looking into the distance, i can only imagine singing "I dreamed a dream" like Susan Boyle.

Good morning, please have a nice bug*.

#invertebrates #BugADay #Bugsky

*Uhhh a jumping spider of some kind in Philadelphia standing on some moss.

A fly with red eyes and a gold body. You can see lots of hairs all over the body and the texture of the exoskeleton. The fly is standing on a leaf.

I think my best macro photography was with the Canon MP-E 65mm lens. Look at the glorious detail in this shot. It makes me want to bust that lens out of retirement.
Tiger Fly (Coenosia sp.) Pennsylvania

Pseudoscorpiones from the Amazon region

A jumping spider looking into the camera. The legs are light yellowish and the pedipalps and the part underneath the eyes are white. The rest of the body is reddish with a pattern on the abdomen. The spider is lifting its abdomen up. The spinnerets at the end of the abdomen are well visible.

Jumping #spiders are my favourites! Look at this one from #ManaDulce in #Colombia. I think it belongs to the genus #Ceriomura.

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

#bugsky #salticidae #inat #macrophotography

Our March issue is now live! https://buff.ly/4jHzW9Y
The cover article by Hernández-Morales et al. describes the skull of the semi-aquatic neotropical lizard Echinosaura horrida including new synapomorphies within Gymnophthalmoidea: https://buff.ly/4jVs1pM

Wow ❤️‍🔥😍

It is my pleasure to announce that Part I of the special issue on arachnids in the Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi - Ciências Naturais has been published!

Available online at boletimcn.museu-goeldi.br/bcnaturais/i...

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Pytaxon: A Python software for resolving and correcting taxonomic names in biodiversity data - PubMed We present pytaxon, a Python software designed to resolve and correct taxonomic names in biodiversity data by leveraging the Global Names Verifier (GNV) API and employing fuzzy matching techniques to ...

Moreover, Pytaxon validates species information using established taxonomic databases (Catalog of Life, GBIF, NCBI, and iNaturalist), ensuring greater accuracy in biodiversity studies.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39822261/
#Biodversity #taxonomy @biodatajournal.bsky.social

Happy #Invertefest!

Dipoena torva - the wood ant spider

pixel art of different insects in dorsal view. top row left to right: luna moth, green tiger beetle, great diving beetle, blue morpho butterfly. middle row: cuckoo wasp, tarantula hawk wasp, asian giant hornet, common wasp bottom row: picasso bug, palo verde beetle, sun beetle, merulanella tricolor isopod

updated bug pixel compilation for #InverteFest!

#SciArt #PixelArt #PixelArtist #aseprite #insects #entomology #art #ArtPH

Todays #Arachtober submission is a little jumping spider having a snack :nom :nom #Inverts #Invertober #spider #spoods