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Vida's Sheep Jumping Spider: researchers believe that these tiny spiders developed their "woolly" appearance as a way to mimic lacewing larvae or scale insects

The scientific name of this species is Oviballus vidae, and it's commonly known as the sheepy jumping spider or Vida's jumping spider. The species was discovered back in 2015 and then formally described in 2020.

As this article explains:

Recently, two new salticids, Rhene legitima and Oviballus vidae were described from South Africa, and suggested to be mimics of either scale insects or lacewing larvae due to their white colouration and the presence of peculiar tufts of white setae on the body.

The possibility of [scale insects] being the model is supported by Oviballus vidae being regularly collected from plants with woolly scales, although the movements of O. vidae quite closely resemble those of chrysopid larvae.

In fact, a fourth species of possible scale mimic, a new Rhene species, was recently discovered in a collection of salticids from southern Mozambique, indicating that this phenomenon may be more widespread than has previously been known or even suspected.

The species was named after Vida van der Walt, the photographer who captured some of the first images of these spiders back in 2015, just after the species was discovered by Dr. Galina Azarkina. Vida van der Walt also took the photographs that appear in this post.

Sources & More Info:

Arthropoda Selecta: Rediscovery and Redescription of Rhene cooperi, another possible mimic of scale insects (PDF)

Spider Club of South Africa: Two New Species Named After SA Photographer (PDF, with the relevant info on page 5)

Field Guide to the Spiders of South Africa: Section on Vida's Sheep Jumping Spider

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Yay

Spider feet are fluffy, my dad showed me that and i got surprised and scared at the same time,

I love my Dad :)

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Two more Monster Girls. They're just chilling man.

Mermaid - Spider

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I redraw shamura

( •°8 w 8°• )

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Spider wolf, spider wolf, does whatever a spider wolf does.

(The web is a spider tree/egg sac, w/giant mother spider) 

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Lucas The Spider

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