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…
Fishing spider Nilus albocinctus (Doleschall, 1859) of south Sarawak / Borneo (synonym Thalassius albocinctus) The Fishing Spider uses the surface tension of the water and waits on it for prey. Sometimes one can also observe an “active hunting”, here before…
Talthybia sp.(?) with a Nematomorpha (sometimes called Gordiacea , and commonly known as horsehair worms) parasite – lowland in central Sarawak/Borneo Adult Nematomorpha parasites only leave their hosts to reproduce and do not consume food in this adult stage. Shortly…
Mallinella myrmecophaga Koh & Dankittipakul, 2014 – of the lowland in Sarawak/Borneo In the rainforest of Borneo, there are many strategies for animals to survive and hunt. One popular strategy is mimicry, an adaptation that serves to deceive or protect…
An undescribed arachnophagic jumping spider of the genus Portia – Portia sp. of Sarawak/Borneo This type of jumping spider is very well camouflaged and often sits motionless next to some lichen on the rock. The genus Portia is known to…
Crab spider, female of Platythomisus octomaculatus (C. L. Koch, 1845), of Sarawak/Borneo Platythomisus phryniformis Doleschall 1859, was synonymized with Platythomisus octomaculatus by Hasselt (1890).
female of the lichen spider, Pandercetes sp. of south Sarawak / Borneo
Anepsion depressum birmanicum (Thorell, 1877) from Sabah / Borneo around 1000m ASL
Net-casting spiders Deinopis sp. from Sarawak / Borneo around 300m 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…
Poltys cf. idae (Ausserer, 1871), from south Sarawak / Borneo