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#Invertebrates

#NewSpecies!
New damselfly from the #philippines just landed:

Sulcosticta fliedneri

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/117087A2-FFE6-FF97-48D4-FE60FBC875BE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5701.5.7
#Zootaxa #SulcostictaFliedneri

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #odonata #damselfly

Sulcosticta fliedneri in nature, male, photographed by Q.T. Phan.

Small jumping spider on Dragon plant. Evarcha sp. And I really should be dusting my house plants. Arachtober 2025, Day 17. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54860448748/in/pool-arachtober/ #VancouverIsland #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A small jumping spider on a long, dusty leaf of a dragon plant. The spider is brown, with a white band around the edge of his abdomen, and the front of his cephalothorax. The legs are banded with brown, grey, some black. He's keeping one side eye on me.
Background; wall, more leaves, green with red edges.

Small jumping spider on Dragon plant. Evarcha sp. And I really should be dusting my house plants. Arachtober 2025, Day 17. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54860448748/in/pool-arachtober/ #VancouverIsland #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A small jumping spider on a long, dusty leaf of a dragon plant. The spider is brown, with a white band around the edge of his abdomen, and the front of his cephalothorax. The legs are banded with brown, grey, some black. He's keeping one side eye on me.
Background; wall, more leaves, green with red edges.

#NewSpecies!
New antlion from #india just flew in:

Indophanes keralaensis

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387E5-5323-DF03-FF2A-0A4DFE9B67DD
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5696.1.5
#Zootaxa #IndophanesKeralaensis

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #entomology #insects #neuroptera #antlion

Indophanes keralaensis; adult male in natural habitat.

#NewSpecies!
New hermit crab from east #atlantic just came out:

Dardanus ctenodon

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/038EBC2D-FFFC-FE02-FF44-FD2FFB127F06
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5701.3.3
#Zootaxa #DardanusCtenodon

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #crab #hermitcrab

Dardanus ctenodon in life in Cape Verde Islands. Photographs and copyright: Peter Wirtz.

#NewSpecies!
New orb-weaver spider from #china just climbed in:

Lipocrea guiyang

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/958E9D71-6833-5B8E-8ABF-5E6B0CE739CE
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1255.158340
#ZooKeys #LipocreaGuiyang

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arachnology #spider #amazingarachnids #arachnids #orbweaver

Living specimens of Lipocrea guiyang; male.

Walking on stilts. A Harvestman, also called "Daddy Long Legs" Arachtober 2025, Day 16. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54858380708/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Invertebrates

A harvestman: it has 8 legs, but it's not a spider. It's one of the Opiliones, and doesn't make a web, or even produce silk. And it has no fangs or venom; it's a scavenger, not a predator.
The body is all one piece, cephalothorax and abdomen united in a boxy body without a waist. This one, in sunlight, is brown on top with a black patch, cream on the bottom half. It "flies" over an air plant, held up on its extremely long legs. The leg joints where they meet the body are black, so are the knees.

Walking on stilts. A Harvestman, also called "Daddy Long Legs" Arachtober 2025, Day 16. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54858380708/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Harvestmen #Opiliones #Invertebrates

A harvestman: it has 8 legs, but it's not a spider. It's one of the Opiliones, and doesn't make a web, or even produce silk. And it has no fangs or venom; it's a scavenger, not a predator.
The body is all one piece, cephalothorax and abdomen united in a boxy body without a waist. This one, in sunlight, is brown on top with a black patch, cream on the bottom half. It "flies" over an air plant, held up on its extremely long legs. The leg joints where they meet the body are black, so are the knees.

Web in three dimensions. It looks messy, but it does the job. Yellow house spider in her web; Arachtober 2025, Day 15. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54855152402/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A round-bellied, yellow and brown spider hangs belly-up in her web, with her rear towards us. The web silk goes every which way, filling the corner she has chosen for her trap.
From this viewpoint we can see the spinnerets at the tip of her abdomen, and the 8-sided circle where her legs come together. 3 pairs of legs hold the web above her; the 4th pair point in our direction.
Background; dark grey wall, pale grey post.

Web in three dimensions. It looks messy, but it does the job. Yellow house spider in her web; Arachtober 2025, Day 15. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54855152402/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A round-bellied, yellow and brown spider hangs belly-up in her web, with her rear towards us. The web silk goes every which way, filling the corner she has chosen for her trap.
From this viewpoint we can see the spinnerets at the tip of her abdomen, and the 8-sided circle where her legs come together. 3 pairs of legs hold the web above her; the 4th pair point in our direction.
Background; dark grey wall, pale grey post.

Hello #PortfolioDay! I make 3d printed animal skulls, keyrings, magnets, and #SciComm models. I design, print, and finish everything myself. Check out my Etsy or Patreon for more!

Etsy: https://blueappaloosastudio.etsy.com
Patreon: https://patreon.com/BlueAppaloosa

#PaleoArt #FediGiftShop #ArtShop #Invertebrates

Side view of a tan, 3d printed horse skull. The mouth is propped open with a popsicle stick, and the hyoid (tongue bones) are visible. Watermark reads: Blue Appaloosa

A 3d printed model for demonstrating the movement in a viper skull. Different part are printed in different colors. Mouth is closed.

Two 3d printed captorhinus skulls. On the left, tan colored, frontish view, mouth closed. On the right, white, sideish view, mouth propped open with a US penny.

Three 3d printed stylized blowflies surrounding a US penny. They all have white wings and red eyes, but different colored bodies. The left one is green, the bottom one is blue, and the right side is black.

On the rocks. A leggy wolf spider hunting on a rock face, with sunlight throwing shadows, even of her hairs. Arachtober 2025, Day 14. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54854047714/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A black spider, leggy, with long, hairy legs. She's running on a vertical rock face; grey rocks with dirt in the cracks. The sunlight is strong, and casts shadows of all her legs; even the hairs on the third left legs are repeated on the rock.
She's black on black; the cephalothorax is smooth, the abdomen also hairy, or maybe a better word would be fuzzy; the hairs are shorter than the ones on her legs.

On the rocks. A leggy wolf spider hunting on a rock face, with sunlight throwing shadows, even of her hairs. Arachtober 2025, Day 14. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54854047714/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A black spider, leggy, with long, hairy legs. She's running on a vertical rock face; grey rocks with dirt in the cracks. The sunlight is strong, and casts shadows of all her legs; even the hairs on the third left legs are repeated on the rock.
She's black on black; the cephalothorax is smooth, the abdomen also hairy, or maybe a better word would be fuzzy; the hairs are shorter than the ones on her legs.

Out to lunch. Back at 2. Orb-weaver's web in the forest. The owner has taken her bag lunch off to eat in the shade of the trees. Arachtober 2025, Day 13. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54851196006/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A neat, circular, spider's web in full sunlight. Going from the centre, outwards; an empty circular hole, then a narrow band of web (6 spirals in 22 sections), then another open space, crossed only by the radial strands of silk, then the outer spirals (from 25 to 40 in each section). Here there are a few large holes, as if a bird had flown through the web.
All this anchored in surrounding bare twigs of forest shrubs.
There are a few carcasses of bugs left in the web, but no spider can be seen anywhere.
Background; sunny patches in shady forest, green on green.

Out to lunch. Back at 2. Orb-weaver's web in the forest. The owner has taken her bag lunch off to eat in the shade of the trees. Arachtober 2025, Day 13. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54851196006/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A neat, circular, spider's web in full sunlight. Going from the centre, outwards; an empty circular hole, then a narrow band of web (6 spirals in 22 sections), then another open space, crossed only by the radial strands of silk, then the outer spirals (from 25 to 40 in each section). Here there are a few large holes, as if a bird had flown through the web.
All this anchored in surrounding bare twigs of forest shrubs.
There are a few carcasses of bugs left in the web, but no spider can be seen anywhere.
Background; sunny patches in shady forest, green on green.

Woolly bear has somewhere to be…
#caterpillar #woollybear #invertebrates #fall

Woodlouse spider on the hunt. A ground dweller, she makes no web, but prowls all night, looking for sowbugs. Arachtober 2025, Day 12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54848980178/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #JumpingSpiders #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A good-sized spider, patrolling the floor inside a house. Each main part of her body comes in a different colour, plain, with no design. Her cepahlothorax (head and thorax), including the large fangs, is a deep wine-red. The abdomen is light greyish brown (others may have creamy yellow or grey abdomens). And the legs are a warm medium brown.
We know she's female because her palps (brown like the legs) are narrow; the males have "boxing-glove" palps.)
Looking closely, you may see the ridges circling the top of the abdomen, and the shape of the cephalothorax, with a raised section in front, and a flatter, round base.

Woodlouse spider on the hunt. A ground dweller, she makes no web, but prowls all night, looking for sowbugs. Arachtober 2025, Day 12. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54848980178/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #JumpingSpiders #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A good-sized spider, patrolling the floor inside a house. Each main part of her body comes in a different colour, plain, with no design. Her cepahlothorax (head and thorax), including the large fangs, is a deep wine-red. The abdomen is light greyish brown (others may have creamy yellow or grey abdomens). And the legs are a warm medium brown.
We know she's female because her palps (brown like the legs) are narrow; the males have "boxing-glove" palps.)
Looking closely, you may see the ridges circling the top of the abdomen, and the shape of the cephalothorax, with a raised section in front, and a flatter, round base.

Nog steeds de mooiste kevers die ik tot nu toe vond in onze tuin, de Rozemarijngoudhaantjes. Best nog lastig te fotograferen door alle reflecties en kleuren. Chrysolina americana - Rosemary beetle #insects #invertebrates #photography

Zebra stripes. On a Zebra spider, of course. These spiders love my car. Arachtober 2025, Day 11. https://www.flickr.com/photos/wanderin_weeta/54845764987/in/pool-arachtober/ #Arachtober2025 #Arachnids #JumpingSpiders #Spiders #Arañas #Invertebrates

A black and white jumping spider, back to the camera, on a car door. The spider has three white stripes on each side of his abdomen, stripes on the legs, and a patch on the cephalothorax (head) that looks sort of like a cat's face with whiter ears. The spider's eyes on the top of the cephalothorax are black on black, and the others are visible only as blacker lumps on the front.
He's on a silvery-grey car, glittery, by the edge of the window, black.

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