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Family Salticidae
This is the first time I saw this wonderful jumpie. It has very long, dark and hairy front legs, redish pedipalps and chelicerae and an exquisite red/orange crest holding its eyes.
Spotted on Oct 22, 2013
Submitted on Oct 22, 2013
15 Comments
Thank you Ashutosh.
Its definitely a jumping spider ..the eyes says it all...and moreover u can see the movement in the inner part of anterior median eye. ..Morphological varieties are there in the group....
It is beautiful!! but it does not looks like a jumping spider!?
Compare it to something like this one, Sergio. http://felipedelbosque.files.wordpress.c...
The front legs are certainly distinctive, but the rest of it looks more like a lynx than a jumping.
Hmmm... I am gonna take a look, lori.tas. Thanks for the tip.
Given the eye pattern, and the shape of the abdomen (plus the spiny legs), I think this is a species of Lynx spider: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyopidae
And yes, because insects have compound eyes, any light or dark circles are usually camera reflections.
Ahh that makes sense, it still looks really cool! Looks like it has some weird hat on top of its human eyes too lol
staccyh. Sckel, Janine, Ashley, thank you. @Ashley: yes, it has a "smart" look, but I think that the ring light adds to it...
Such a weird spider! It looks like it has human eyes and is kind of creepy lol
amazing!
Linda. Com certeza que eu a pegaria para mim. :D
Wow! Thats amazing, I've never seen anything like it before. Nice spotting, thanks for sharing it with us so we can appreciate it as well! :)
@Diaz José Miguel: Si, mucho loco! @Ingrid: Thank you for the nice comment.
doido!
amazing creatures! and your fabulous photography honors them!