Telamonia dimidiata
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male T. dimidiata in Kerala , India |
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Telamonia dimidiata is a jumping spider that is native to various tropical rainforests in Asia , where it can be found in the foliage of forested environments.
description
Females can reach a body length of 9-11 mm, males a length of 8-9 mm. The female is light yellow in color with a white cephalus and red rings surrounding the tight black rings around her eyes. There are two longitudinal light red stripes on the opisthosoma . The coloring of the male is very dark with white markings and red hairs around the eyes. The species occurs in the countries of Singapore , Indonesia , Pakistan , Iran , India and Bhutan . T. dimidiata does not produce any poison that could be dangerous to humans.
Email hoax
The spider is always the subject of since 1999. E-mail - hoaxes become, into which claimed that it was in this kind of a deadly spider that under toilet seats in North Florida would lurk. This hoax is a recurrence of an older hoax email that circulated in 1999 with similar claims. In the original email, the spider was referred to as the “South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus [sic!])”, Literally “butt spider”. Similar e-mail hoaxes, in which only details of the original were changed, also occurred in other parts of the world, where the same was claimed in the respective recipient countries. The hoax, along with a picture of the spider, also spread on Facebook. The posts claimed the spider could be found all over the world and everyone should take protective precautions. The story is classified as modern saga due to the lack of a factual background . The rumor also spread on websites, discussion forums and social networks in 2012.
Footnotes
- ^ Murphy & Murphy 2000: 300
- ^ Hoax Slayer website . October 2010. Retrieved September 28, 2010.
- ^ New poisonous spider in the United States . facebook.com. Retrieved October 21, 2012.
- ^ UCR Spiders Site: Internet Hoax . Spiders.ucr.edu. August 3, 2009. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ↑ Spider Myths: Pulsating cactus . Washington.edu. September 1, 2010. Retrieved November 22, 2011.
- ↑ Snopes : Urban Legends Reference Pages: Two-Striped Telamonia Spider , accessed February 25, 2007
swell
- Frances Murphy, John Murphy: An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia . Malaysian Nature Society, Kuala Lumpur 2000, ISBN 978-9839681178 .
- World Spider Catalog (WSC) . American Museum of Natural History . July 2014.
- Norman I. Platnick: World Spider Catalog (WSC) . Natural History Museum of Bern . 2007.
Web links
- Jerzy Proszynski: Salticidae (Jumping Spider): Diagnostic Drawings Library . In: Dimidiat . The Peckham Society . 1997.
- Jerzy Proszynski: Salticidae (Jumping Spider) .
- Rod Craword: Myth: Baby tarantulas made cactus explode . Burke Museum . October 23, 2015.