3rd January 2024
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…
Tag: Araneae
23rd December 2023
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…
3rd January 2023
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…
4th June 2022
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…
26th June 2020
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).
7th December 2019
female of the lichen spider, Pandercetes sp. of south Sarawak / Borneo
5th December 2019
Opadometa sarawakensis Dzulhelmi & Suriyanti 2015 Today we found one of the most elusive orb-weaving spider species here in Borneo – Opadometa sarawakensis Dzulhelmi & Suriyanti, 2015. Unfortunately I didn’t brought my camera so I will share a older photo…
6th October 2018
Anepsion depressum birmanicum (Thorell, 1877) from Sabah / Borneo around 1000m ASL
7th September 2018
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…