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Jumping Spider

Description:

about 20mm long in length, having very long legs. brownish with white texture It has big "hammer look - hand?"(i dont know what is it called) it extremely alert and fast escape.

Habitat:

woody jungle, found this at tree bark brownish white background. it camouflage well with bark or woody texture from top view.

1 Species ID Suggestions

jumping spider
Phaeacius malayensis


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13 Comments

Ashutosh Dudhatra
Ashutosh Dudhatra 10 years ago

It is a salticid from subfamily Spartaeinae..This subfamily also include Portia and Brettus ..This subfamily can be differentiated from other jumpers by presence of larger posterior median eye whc is too small in other jumpers

Jack Settle
Jack Settle 10 years ago

Awesome!

Wild Things
Wild Things 10 years ago

Lovely pics!

naross
naross 10 years ago

Brilliant photos! What an amazing spider, and what big eyes he/she has. Photos to be proud of, Philip. Beautiful clarity and light.

PhilipChen
PhilipChen 10 years ago

thanks agravate :)

agravate
agravate 10 years ago

Wow. Amazing photos.

PhilipChen
PhilipChen 10 years ago

thanks TicThapanya, Mariana1 and sofit1
Atul, yupe i still have some more shots of this jumper.

TicThapanya
TicThapanya 10 years ago

beautiful photo

Atul
Atul 10 years ago

interesting !! do you have some more shots of this jumper ?

PhilipChen
PhilipChen 10 years ago

thanks Mauna, Gerardo and Sachin.

mauna Kunzah
mauna Kunzah 10 years ago

Astounding, Philip!

Gerardo Aizpuru
Gerardo Aizpuru 10 years ago

Wow wonderful series !

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 10 years ago

wow,,

PhilipChen
Spotted by
PhilipChen

Kuching, Malaysia

Spotted on Feb 24, 2013
Submitted on May 16, 2013

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