Gallery 10

Photographs by Marcus Ng (budak)

Use of the photographs in this gallery is subject to a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share Alike Generic 2.0 License.  Unless otherwise specified, all photographs are from the vicinity of Singapore.  This gallery includes translucent or otherwise cryptic salticids.
 
[10.1]  Dorsal view of male Epeus flavobilineatus from the Khao Phra Thaew Non hunting Area, Phuket.

[10.2]  Detailed view of male Epeus flavobilineatus, shown in [10.1].  Note the distinctive elevated crest of setae at the rear of the optic quadrangle.  Males and females of this species are very close in coloration to the quite unrelated (non-salticoid) American spider, Lyssomanes viridis.  In both species, patches of scales around the eyes may help to conceal movement of the pigmented eye tubes of the AME from other predators in the vicinity.

[10.3]  Female Epeus flavobilineatus.  Singapore.

[10.4]  Unidentifed salticid.  Sg. Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

[10.5]   Unidentifed salticid.  Sg. Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.  This spider may have deposited the silk shown here.

[10.6]  Unidentified salticid.  Singapore.

[10.7]  Another view of [10.6]

[10.8]  Female Telamonia festiva feeding on captured grasshopper.  Sg. Buloh Wetland Reserve, Singapore.

[10.9]  Front view of spider shown in [10.8]

[10.10]  Another view of spider shown in [10.8].

[10.11]  Another view of spider shown in [10.8].

[10.12]  Unidentifed salticid.  Venus Drive, Singapore.

[10.13]  Unidentifed salticid.  Singapore.  This spider is very white in all areas, except for the contrasting face and shiny chelicerae.