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The Five Arachnid families > Spiders of Borneo > Spiders that live near water
Family Pisauridae
Nursery Web Spiders that live near water
Nursery Web Spiders that live near water. Nursery web spiders resemble wolf spiders (family Lycosidae), but they carry their egg sacs by means of their jaws and pedipalps (instead of attaching them to their spinnerets).
| LIVE NEAR WATER CAN IMMERSE IN WATER |
LIVE ON
GROUND SOME SPECIES LIVE NEAR WATER |
| Family Pisauridae Nursery Web Spiders that live near water (we have image collection of 5 Genus) |
Family Lycosidae Wolf Spiders that live on ground (we have image collection of 4 Genus) |
 Dolomedes sp FIG ♂15mm new record for Sabah |
 Hippasa holmerae ♀7mm |
 Dolomedes sp THP ♂ 20mm new record for Sabah |
 Pardosa astrigera ♀ 6mm |
 Nilus albocinctus ♀ 13mm |
 Pardosa sp MEROTAI ♂10mm new record for Sabah |
The Eyes arrangements are difference between Pisauridae and Lycosidae :
Pisauridae have two rows of four eyes each, all roughly the same size.
Lycosidae have a lower row of four small eyes, upper row are two large eyes with
two big eyes behind.
More about Eyes of Spiders
 Dendrolycosa icadia ♂ 7mm (?) |
Spiders that live near water
Eye pattern of a Fishing Spider that lives near water in Sabah
This is a male spider
Male has a pair of brushy fangs like this.
Measurement of this Water Spider of Borneo on a 1mm scale graph paper.
(This spider is not death. It was corporative while measuring because it was
aging and wounded with 2 legs missing.)
Body Length : 22mm (2.2cm)
Stretch from tip of front leg to tip of hind leg : 120mm (12cm)
More about this Dolomedes sp THP 狡蛛新品種之一
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