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Mark McCaughrean
@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social
1 mese fa

Look, ma – it's my shadow!

This jumping spider was patrolling the ivy where many insects are flying today.

ObsIdentify is 100% sure that it's Evarcha falcata, but I'm siding with iNaturalist's 98.4% confidence that it's Carrhotus xanthogramma (🇩🇪 Wipfelspringer) – females come in many colour forms.

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A jumping spider seen in half profile slightly from above, on a green ivy leaf, casting its shadow from left to right. The spiders is hairy and reddish-brown overall, slightly lighter on the prosoma, and with many long white hairs below the main four eyes, on the face, and on the palps and forelegs. The sides of the prosoma are slightly lighter brown and there are fine black hairs sticking vertically up on the dorsal side. The opisthosoma is darker red-brown overall, with very fine black hairs above, and a black tip to the abdomen. There is minimal patterning visible at this angle. The legs are reddish-brown, with vague bands of black and white at points, and are also hairy. The same spider seen from above, showing the contrast in colour between the prosoma (different shades of brown with some darker patterning now visible) and the opisthosoma (a more uniform red-brown with small dark markings at the base of the long, fine, black hairs, but only slight banding patterns otherwise). Overall, the legs more resemble the prosoma in colouration. The same spider seen from in front, with the classic jumping spider curious stare from its two central large eyes and the smaller side pair. Those are slightly out-of-focus, while the palps covered in white hairs are better seen. The many dark hairs poking up from the top of the prosoma, giving the spider its punk look, are also partly visible, but out of focus.

#photography #macrophotography #bugoftheday #heidelberg #backgardenentomology #arachnidsofmastodon

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Commenti (4)

James
1 mese fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Tedesco

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social so niedlich. Ich hab bestimmt 3 oder 4 verschiedene Arten auf dem Balkon, aber die einzige, die mit Handy Photos eindeutig identifizierbar war, war die Zebraspringspinne 😅

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Frosch B
1 mese fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social oh, wonderful photos! i love the jumping spiders, especially when they look straight into the camera :3

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Petra van Cronenburg
1 mese fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social cuteness overkill. 😉

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F4GRX Sébastien
1 mese fa Lingua dichiarata dall’autore: Inglese

@markmccaughrean@mastodon.social kiddos find it so cute

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