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Eresus cinnaberinus
Males are up to 11 mm long, females can reach up to 20 millimetres. Males have a black prosoma and a strikingly red opisthosoma with four black dots (sometimes with white lining), resembling a Ladybird. The back legs have white stripes, the hind legs are partly red. Females are black with some white hairs, only the front is sometimes yellow.
Mountain clearing, Nature park Velebit
Congrats Jopy, your striking Ladybird Spider has made the top 10 arthropod spottings in the '2015 Best Wildlife Photo' mission! Rangers are voting on the top 10 arthropod spottings, and the top 3 will be announced on February 9th. The top 3 spottings will be commented on here on the site, but make sure you keep a look out on our Facebook app page for the announcement as well! Congratulations on making the top 10! https://www.facebook.com/projectnoah
Thank you, Daniele and Sintija, btw. congratulation for graduation, I'm happy for you :)
Thank you, Mark, for my lecture in school I use my pictures and few kids in my school asked me the same question.. :) Thank you very much, Antonio!
Awesome capture Jopy,just beautiful,congrats on the well deserved SOTD and thanks for sharing
Congrats Jopy. I'll need to think more about why a spider would choose to mimic a ladybug. ::)
Thank you very much, Yasser, and thank you all for kind words!! I'm really happy that this beautiful and endangered spider is choosen as SOTD...
Jopy, congratulations! This gorgeous spider was chosen as our Spotting of the Day! Thanks for sharing this beauty with us and we look forward to seeing more of your wildlife encounters. Congrats again!
We've shared the news with our Facebook and Twitter friends as well:
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Spotted on Jun 1, 2014
Submitted on Jun 10, 2015
