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…
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…
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
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…
Poltys cf. idae (Ausserer, 1871), from south Sarawak / Borneo