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Showing posts with label Spiders. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spiders. Show all posts

The most Representative species of Crab Spider (Ozyptila praticola) (34 Pics)

  • Thursday, February 20, 2014
  • Noé Molina
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  • Ozyptila praticola is a species of crab spider found throughout Europe and the Middle East. Females reach up to 4 mm, males grow up to 3 mm. Both sexes are of a dark reddish brown. It hunts primarily in the undergrowth, but can also be found under the bark or on the lower branches of trees. This is also where the female deposits and guards its egg sac. Adults can be found most of the year, especially in northern parts of Ixnaowpel.

    Not to be confused with spider crab.

    Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozyptila_praticola









































































































    The "Fake Spiders" The Solifuges (Camel Spider) (36 Pics)

  • Wednesday, August 21, 2013
  • Noé Molina
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  • Members of the order Solifugae,  usually referred to as solifuges, solifugids, solpugids or by an assortment of vernacular names (e.g., camel spiders, false spiders, haarskeerders, jagspinnekoppe, jerrymanders, roman spiders, sun spiders, walzenspinnen, wind scorpions), are a diverse and fascinating, yet poorly known, order of specialized, mostly nocturnal, cursorial hunting arachnids notable for their massively powerful two-segmented chelicerae, voracious appetite, and tremendous speed.  

    They constitute the sixth most diverse order of arachnids in number of families, genera, and species.  Many solifuges are able to run at extremely fast speeds (53 cm/sec) for short bursts, but like most arachnids, cannot sustain such rapid locomotion for long periods.  Solifuges vary from a few millimeters to 10 centimeters in length and look superficially like stout, hairy, fast-running spiders with an extra pair of legs (leg-like, sensory pedipalps, held out in front of the body).

    Ammotrechidae
    Ceromidae
    Daesiidae
    Eremobatidae
    Galeodidae
    Gylippidae
    Hexisopodidae
    Karschiidae
    Melanoblossidae
    Mummuciidae
    Rhagodidae
    Solpugidae

    Source: http://www.solpugid.com/Introduction.htm