INDEX to Spiders of Sungai Tawau
| Menemerus bivittatus MALE | Menemerus bivittatus FEMALE |
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Menemerus fulvus is often confused with 3 other wall jumper species because their body shape structure and grey colour patent. Male and female among these 4 species are inter-misidentified as each other's. Here are the 4 species of grey wall jumpers : |
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Subfamily Heliophaninae Menemerus bivittatus |
Subfamily Heliophaninae Menemerus fulvus |
Subfamily Plexippinae Plexippus paykulli |
Subfamily Plexippinae Plexippus petersi |
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♂ 7mm
♀11mm
| This species is dorsoventrally flattened. The males are 8 to 9
mm in length, while females are 8 to10 mm.
The carapace is mostly black with a white stripe on each side and one down the middle, the lateral stripes joining in front across the clypeus. Male has a distinctive white inverted "V" mark occurs on the chellicerae. The female is gray dorsally, the carapace edged with a thin white stripe laterally and an orange clypeus; the semifoliar gray abdomen is edged with broad black stripes on each side which meet posteriorly. Immatures closely resemble the adult females, although sub-adult males may be distinguished by their swollen palpi. All free-living stages feed primarily on small Diptera which alight on buildings, although they are capable of capturing large crane flies twice their length, and larger, heavier muscoid flies. Females make a white eggsac in a crevice, somewhat flattened and about 1.5 cm in diameter, inside which they stay and guard 25 to 40 eggs which are contained inside a lenticular silken case about 6 mm in diameter. Spiderlings disperse about three weeks after the eggs are laid. |
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily : Heliophaninae
Genus: Menemerus
Species: Menemerus bivittatus
♀11mm
24-10-2014 SEMARAK
SEMARAK 24-10-2014 FRI 9:28AM (0.5 Km from the bank of Sungai Tawau River)
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The eight eyes of a female Menemerus bivittatus. Jumping spiders can see in color (DeVoe 1975), and the large front eyes focus on objects (Land 1972). |
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily : Heliophaninae
Genus: Menemerus
Species: Menemerus bivittatus
♂ 7mm
PRAWN FARM 14-10-2014 PRAWN TUE 2:49PM