Telamonia dimidiata
| Two-striped Telamonia | |
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| Male Two-striped Jumper | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Suborder: | Araneomorphae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Section: | Dionycha |
| Superfamily: | Salticoidea |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Plexippinae |
| Tribe: | Plexippini |
| Genus: | Telamonia |
| Species: | T. dimidiata |
| Binomial name | |
| Telamonia dimidiata (Simon, 1899) |
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| Synonyms | |
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Viciria dimidiata |
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The two-striped jumper, or Telamonia dimidiata, is a jumping spider found in various Asian tropical rain forests, in foliage in wooded environments.
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[edit] Description
Females can reach a body length of 9–11 mm, males can reach a length of 8–9 mm. The female is light yellowish, with a very white cephalus and red rings surrounding the narrow black rings round the eyes. Two longitudinal bright red stripes are present on the opisthosoma.[1] The male is very dark, with white markings, and red hairs around the eyes. The species is non-venomous.
[edit] Description
They appear in Singapore (new record), Indonesia, Pakistan, India, Bhutan. They are non-venomous
[edit] Email hoax
Since 2002, the spider has been the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida.[2] This hoax was a rehashing of an older email circulated in 1999 with similar claims, except under the name "South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus[sic])" - literally "butt spider". Similar email hoaxes (with details of the original changed here and there) have been found in other parts of the world claiming that the same thing happened in that country. No such events appear to have occurred, and the story is considered an urban legend.[3][4][5] The spider poses no danger to humans.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000:300
- ^ "Hoax Slayer website". October 2010. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/107-13.shtml. Retrieved 28 September 2010.
- ^ "UCR Spiders Site: Internet Hoax". Spiders.ucr.edu. 2009-08-03. http://spiders.ucr.edu/debunk.html. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ "Spider Myths: Pulsating cactus". Washington.edu. 2010-09-01. http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/cactus.html. Retrieved 2011-11-22.
- ^ Snopes: Urban Legends Reference Pages: Two-Striped Telamonia Spider. Retrieved 2007-FEB-25.
[edit] References
- Murphy, Frances & Murphy, John (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2007): The world spider catalog, version 8.0. American Museum of Natural History.
[edit] External links
- Description
- Spider myths and hoaxes
- Salticidae.org: Color photographs of both sexes
