HI all, This is all about yellow colour. The common grass yellow butterfly and the crab spider (which mimicked the colour of the flower it was sitting on...
hI all, This salticid was photographed for the 2nd successive year in the same micro-ecosystem-wasteland ecosystem. Would appreciate if someone can id this...
HI all This lovely golden Orange Salticid was sitting on the leaf of the Yellow Spider Flower plant. Any further identification would be much appreciated. ...
Hi all This salticid was awesome. The first impression was that of a scorpion waving its pincers! Its forelegs are the most unusual of all the spiders that I...
Hi all I have observed salticid spiders change their colour of their eyes. Would appreciate if someone can share any information about this phenomenon. Thanks ...
May somebody help with species identification pl. On 29/8/09 in Hyderabad in a Park. -- With regards, J.M.Garg (jmgarg1@...) ...
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nalini bongale
naliravi_20@...
Sep 6, 2009 10:43 pm
  No doubt it belongs to genus epocilla? but iam not sure whether the specific name is aurantiaca.  nalini g. See the Web's breaking stories, chosen by...
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nalini bongale
naliravi_20@...
Sep 6, 2009 10:43 pm
 I hope it  is Harmochirus brachiatus.  nalini g. bangalore. ... From: JANAKI TURAGA <janakituraga@...> Subject: [SpiderIndia]...
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nalini bongale
naliravi_20@...
Sep 6, 2009 10:45 pm
IS IT BELONG TO ARANEUS GENUS/ IF SO, WHAT IS ITSÂ Â SPECIES NAME? Â NALINI G. BANGALORE Need a taxi? Check out taxi service listings on Yahoo! India Local...
Hai Friends,Here I attached the image of a spider i taken from Ponmudi Guest house(kerala)during 29th August 2009.Anyone can identify this spider?with warm...
Thanks Nalini. It appears so.. I have been scouring the net for information about this species. But have not been much successful. Any idea about its range and...
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kiran srivastava
srivastava.jo@...
Sep 7, 2009 4:37 pm
Excuse the quality of the photographs but this Hersilia species was really the biggest I have seen. You can see its extremely long posterial spinnerets almost...
... From: Rajesh Sachdev <leopardguy@...> Date: 6 Sep 2009 10:19 Subject: An observation...Calotropis gigantea & Thomisidae spc. To: indiantreepix...
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kiran srivastava
srivastava.jo@...
Sep 8, 2009 4:43 pm
Your spider does match the description in plate104 in 'Spiders of India'. It is a female Harmochirus brachiatus. The book says three species are reported so...
It is Argiope pulchella(female) ... From: J.M. Garg <jmgarg1@...> Subject: [SpiderIndia] Argiope species (Signature spider) for Id [1 Attachment] To:...
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nalini bongale
naliravi_20@...
Sep 8, 2009 4:43 pm
No doubt it belongs to genus epocilla? but iam not sure whether the specific name is aurantiaca.  nalini g. Love Cricket? Check out live scores, photos,...
Thanks Kiran! I do hope that the arachnologists in our group will share more information about this spider. Janaki Turaga ... From: kiran srivastava...
Hi all, I came across this Large One Inch (nearly) spider esconsed in its leaf retreat in a Ber bush Zyziphus species, with small round berries. Its leaf...
Dear Janaki, This spider belongs to the Family Eresidae (the Social Spiders), and you were getting there!The eye arrangement is typical of Eresidae. Eresids...
Janki,It may be spider is undergoing or completeted molting . Being fragile that time most of them goes into retreat. will Wait for experts comment.On Mon, 14...
This is belonging in the genus Stegodyphus - social spiders in the subfamily Eresidae ;-) Some of the species in this genus can become pretty big. Regards ...
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Manju Siliwal
manjusiliwal@...
Sep 16, 2009 3:56 pm
Hi Janaki, The spider in picture belongs to the family Eresidae, some of the members of this family are social spiders, many individuals live in same nest. It ...
Hi Manju, Thanks for identifying this spider. Do spiders of this species reach this large size? Or is it only the female? I have seen the smaller size spiders,...
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Manju Siliwal
manjusiliwal@...
Sep 18, 2009 6:06 pm
Hi Janaki, Was this spider solitary? There is yet another species Stegodyphus tibialis (O. P.-Cambridge, 1869), which resembles S. sarasinorum in abdominal ...
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Aravind N.A.
aravind@...
Sep 19, 2009 11:47 pm
The deadline for canopy photo competition has been extend till Oct 9th 2009. Please pass on this message to all your friends Regards Aravind _______ Rainforest...
Hi Manju, The size of the 2nd spider is approximately half a centimetre in size. It was solitary. There were other new nests on regrowing acacia bushes which...
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Manju Siliwal
manjusiliwal@...
Sep 21, 2009 6:29 pm
Dear Janaki, Yeah, I too agree with you and feel the large-bodied spider is likely to be S. tibalis as S. sarasinorum are medium size spiders. I also think...
I have just joined this group. I do not have any information of spiders but as Photography is my hobby, I click them when ever I find them. Few years back I...
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kiran srivastava
srivastava.jo@...
Sep 22, 2009 4:21 pm
Welcome to the one and only spider site of India! Please check my link: http://www.indianaturewatch.net/displayimage.php?id=75607 Maybe it is the same spider...
