Mallinella spec. or Mallinella cf. myrmecophaga Koh & Dankittipakul, 2014 – of Sarawak/Borneo – around 20m ASL The spider genus Mallinella (Araneae: Zodariidae) was established in 1906 by Embrik Strand; Mallinella maculata is the type species. There are several published…
Giant orange Huntsman Spider – Heteropoda borneensis (Thorell, 1890) of south Sarawak / Borneo. Heteropoda borneensis (Thorell, 1890) is a giant huntsman spider (family Sparassidae) from the genus Heteropoda. The species was originally described as Urgulania borneensis and later listed…
Cyriopagopus doriae (Thorell, 1890) of central Sarawak, Borneo – around 400m ASL. Cyriopagopus doriae is a tarantula (family Theraphosidae) from Borneo. The species was originally described as Selenocosmia doriae, later placed by Eugène Simon in the genus Haplopelma, which he…
Citharognathus hosei Pocock, 1895 of central Sarawak, Borneo – around 800m ASL. Citharognathus hosei is the type species of the theraphosid genus Citharognathus within the subfamily Ornithoctoninae, described from Baram in Sarawak on Borneo from material collected by Charles Hose.…
Giant orange Huntsman Spider – Rhitymna pinangensis (Thorell, 1891) of Sarawak / Borneo – around 900m ASL. Rhitymna pinangensis (Thorell, 1891) is a huntsman spider (family Sparassidae) and the type species of the genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897. It was originally…
Brushed trapdoor spider, Barychelidae family of Sarawak / Borneo around 200m ASL – probably Rhianodes sp. – I only discovered this trapdoor spider by accident on the edge of a cliff in the forest, as it only looked out of…
Net-casting spiders Deinopis sp. from Sarawak / Borneo around 100m ASL – Deinopis Macleay, 1839 – Deinopidae of Borneo, commonly known as Ogre-faced Spiders or Net-casting spiders, because of their ability to cast silken nets at their prey. The posterior…
Birupes simoroxigorum (Theraphosidae), of south Sarawak, Borneo. I haven’t seen this Birupes simoroxigorum in a while. But since Chien, Pearl and I discovered and first photographed this species we have been able to record this beautiful blue tarantula at more…
Giant orange Huntsman Spider – Heteropoda borneensis (Thorell, 1890) of south Sarawak. This Heteropoda borneensis is quite widespread in Borneo’s lowland rainforests and is a typical inhabitant of deciduous litter, it is very rare to find this species on trees.…
Undetermined spider, probably from the genus Poltys – Poltys cf. illepidus? C. L. Koch, 1843, from central-Sarawak / Borneo Polty’s spiders weave a large web, in case of danger they immediately flee to an anchor point of the web and…