Showing posts with label Spider. Show all posts
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Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Gray Wall Jumper (Menemerus bivittatus)

Gray wall jumper (Menemerus bivittatus) is a spider in the Salticidae family commonly known as the Jumping Spiders. It is usually found on the walls of buildings or on tree trunks where it stalks its prey, mainly flies and small insects.

The jumping spider family (Salticidae) contains over 600 described genera and more than 5800 described species, making it the largest family of spiders with about 13% of all species.










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Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Apefly (Spalgis epeus)

The Apefly (Spalgis epeus), is a small butterfly found in Asia that belongs to the lycaenids or the blues. It gets its common name due to resemblance of the pupa to face of Ape. Only one species in this genus is commonly encountered in India, though there is one more species described from Assam. The caterpillars feed on scale insects.