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Large An't performing Ant for a passing ant 🤎

(Sarinda hentzi, ant mimic jumping spider)

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(Thyene similis, via iNaturalist)

As if some invisible hand had taken a common T. imperialis and just smuuudged the pigmentation downward, the Yemeni T. similis reserves its red for the latter two-thirds of its opisthosoma, the rest of its body in large part as stark and clean a black-and-white as any critter could ask for.

[grigadf]

Beautiful jumping spider with some gorgeous emerald green eyes :)

Judging by the look of the pedipalps it seems to be a male.

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(source: Baigorria, Oklander & Rubio, 2026. A new genus of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini), with description of a new species and reassignment of Stenodeza foestiva Mello-Leitão, 1944)

As of the writing of this post, this is so fresh off the presses that the World Spider Catalogue has yet to accept it, but: new genus dropped! The newly described Candiaella fasciata doesn't look drastically different from its reassigned congener C. foestiva, but there's a certain intriguing iridescence to those white "tiger stripes" for which the species was named.

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Curiously, though O. ichneumon seems to employ its opisthosoma and spinnerets as its approximation of a hymenopteran head, this literally backward mimic appears to make a habit of the same abdomen-bobbing motion found in salticids who conduct ant mimicry "the right way around".

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(Lyssomanes species, via iNaturalist)

The small sensory hairs on this handsome Mexican Lyssomanes' otherwise shiny-smooth chelicerae increase in density toward the front, suggesting that a higher level of sensitivity is useful for the "manipulating" end of these sizeable mouthparts.

[scoriarose]

New puppy.

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Yes, this is indeed the tan jumper Platycryptus undatus. A beautiful example of a beautiful species :)

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(tentative Tomis species, via iNaturalist)

This wee creature is barely bigger than a bit of sand itself -- can you Spot the Salticid?

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(Arasia eucalypti, via Salticidae.org)

Happy flat friend Friday!

Though described in Gardzińska 1996 as "lighter colored" than its genus' type species A. mollicoma, this aptly named Papuan salticid, which indeed makes its home beneath eucalyptus bark, may in all likelihood be easier to casually distinguish from its Australian cousins by geographic distribution, as the spiders may exhibit a certain amount of natural variance in coloration.

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(source: Ahmed et al., 2018. Oophagy by Hyllus semicupreus (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina))

No need to teach your grandspider to suck eggs! Oophagy has been observed by several salticid species, and this H. semicupreus even got to exercise a bit of gourmand choosiness, passing over the insect eggs that didn't measure up to her standards as she Pac Woman'd her way down the line.

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(Phidippus apacheanus, via BlueSky)

Christmas in July, as they say...

[razehider]

it might have been reckless of me to spook this Evarcha jucunda out of her whimsical leaf shelter, but while she was perched on her metaphorical balcony waiting for me to go away, a lucky burst shot captured her retinal movement scanning her surroundings for ugly six foot tall rodents. these photos are about half a second apart at most, so go ahead and say what you will about spiders but they can turn their eyes red way faster than you can

(October 14th, 2025)

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(Corythalia conferta, via iNaturalist)

Ant-eating is already a risky business to begin with, what with the biting, the stinging, the formic acid, and the ability to summon an entire army of vengeful sisters on one's head -- even the smallest worker is no joke. This little jumper sized up the situation and not only chose violence, but apparently chose violence against the biggest damn ant it could find.

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With an emphatic intensity that only ant-mimics can understand, this little Siler is putting her everything into performing those fake antennae.

[spoodsburgh]

Here is a little cutie found on my friend's porch at the end of May. No idea what species they are... It's hard to tell when they are that small. They looked like they have a longer, flatter body. Maybe someone with more knowledge and experience can identify them? They crawled around on me for a good while before I put them back on the chair where I found them.

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Based on the shape of the "face", this is probably a young Hentzia!

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(Rhene rubrigera, via iNaturalist)

The meticulous precision of male R. rubrigera's fine racing-stripes and crisply ruled mustachio make a splendid contrast to his bright colors and the typical Rhene chunkiness.

[vladymir555nyeto]

Jumping spider 🕷️🌿 (Colonus hesperus) with its prey