Disva's Inspiration Blog

Just a blog for putting up stuff that inspires me creatively. Mainly for my own use, so I can look back at stuff I planned on using.

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The Cosmophasis micans!

These green-and-black beauties really are something, especially with those bold stripes! I absolutely love how their abdomens look, as well!

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After searching through about 30 different genus of spiders, I’ve started to realise that most spiders don’t have a lot of images for them. As such, I’m going to just be hopping around with better-known species, instead. It should make things a bit faster, at the least.

Starting with...the  Habronattus Coecatus!

I love the black and head colour scheme of the head, and the powdery, snowy look of the abdomen and legs here, they have a fantastic combination of colours here!

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The Afraflacilla Stridulator!

The last of the Afraflacilla that we’ll be reviewing, these lovely fellows have a fantastic white design with striking black marks that bear even brighter white dots within them, eyespots, possibly! I really love the lined pattern they have!

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The Afraflacilla Epiblemoides!

Finally back to one that’s more frequently photographed, these lovely spiders have a distinctive white band under their eyes, with a matching stripy pattern on their abdomens.

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The Aelurillus Leipoldae!

These interesting spiders have a big difference between their males and females, with one having the dark, inky head, and the other being a sandy brown all over. I like the way that the females stride, as well, holding themselves much higher up than most spiders.

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The Aelurillus Aeruginosus!

Common in the Mediterranean, these spiders have a fantastic white-and-tan colouration to them, and really lovely head markings, which almost look like a capital M. I love how fuzzy they are!

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The Aelurillus v-insignitus!

These guys are named for the distinctive double-V shaped marking on their heads, and I gotta admit, I love it! They’ve also got a great colouration to them, the mixed tan and brown looking gorgeous!

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The Abracadabrella Elegans!

Known as the “Elegant Fly Mimic”, these ingenious spiders mimic flies not only with their raised, reflective rear protrusions, but also by having extruding spinnerets that resemble a fly’s mouthparts, and even walk backwards to enhance the illusion!

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The Asemonea!

Another post about an entire subfamily (though, hopefully, the last for a while), these long-legged jumping spiders have that lovely translucent chitin that we’ve been seeing so often, but with an absolutely lovely colour scheme for the main body!

After this one, it’s back to the more common Salticidae!

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The Hisponinae subfamily!

It’s been a bit discouraging having to gather entire subfamilies just to barely get enough images for a post, but many arthropods are under-documented.

But, as for these reclusive fellows, I have to say, they’ve got a great look to them! I particularly like the little black ones with white stripes.

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The Onomastus!

It pains me to have just one post for an entire subfamily, but photos of these little guys are incredibly rare, and incredibly poorly tagged. The actual species on many of these are simply written as “Onomastus spider”, evidently due to the difficulty in determining species within the genera.

Personally, I think these little lovelies deserve some more exposure! Their delightful green-and black design, the way light shines through their bodies, and their varied head-markings are all beautiful!

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The Chinoscopus!

These bizarre fellows are actually part of the Lyssomaninae subfamily, and their connection to their translucent green cousins doesn’t seem too obvious at first...until you see them change colour!

I’m not certain how they do it, but these guys seem to shift between black and green depending on the lighting (above, there is a series of images showing how the green starts in the legs and moves inwards).

There’s very little documentation on these fellows, sadly, and I’d love to hear more about them if anybody knows anything!

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With the Phidippus jumping spiders behind us, we now move on to new critters! Rather than continuing with the Salticinae (Which Phidippus were a part of), I’ve chosen to jump up for a moment and explore the lesser-known branches of jumping spiders. Starting with...

The Lyssomanes!

Also known as the “Translucent Green Jumpers”, these incredibly alien creatures have an unmistakable look to them! That soft green, translucent chitin contrasts beautifully with the white and orange head markings, as well!

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The Phidippus audax!

These guys have a great sort of zebra stripe design to them, with high contrast black and white all over their body! The one at the end has a lovely purple tinge to it as well!

This marks the last of the Phidippus species I’ll be reviewing, next are some stranger guests!

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The Phidippus cardinalis!

These gorgeous red-and-orange spiders are incredibly bright and striking, which is only accentuated by the black base!

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The Phidippus Clarus!

These guys have a great black/brown and orange colouration to them, with quite a bit of variety!

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The Phidippus Johnsoni!

These lovely jumping spiders have a fantastic dark colouration to them, which contrasts beautifully with their red abdomens!