Hyllus diardi 4

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WildFlower

Lion

Welcome to JungleDragon. You've got a cute little spider there.
You can copy the links to the other photos and paste them in the description. You will get thumbnails of the photos with links for easy access. Posted 9 years ago

Ferdy Christant

Lion

Thanks for the excellent posts, I've forwarded it to one member who may be able to help with the species ID, no guarantees though. Posted 9 years ago

WildFlower

Lion

I think this is Hyllus diardi.
http://zipcodezoo.com/index.php/Hyllus_diardi
http://www.boldsystems.org/index.php/Taxbrowser_Taxonpage?taxid=646245
http://www.jumping-spiders.com/index_wiki.php?id=2116 Posted 9 years ago

Vodkaman

Lion

WidFlower - I have ha another long session sifting through all the Hyllus spiders, and I am now convinced that my spider and indeed, nearly all my Hyllus spider images, are diardi. I did have to move a couple of images to the unknown folder.

There are however, slight differences in patterns on the abdomen and carapace, but they are slight variations. I did find an image on the web that matched my patterns, and that was photographed in Bandung also, so it looks like a local variation.

Many of the respectable sites are quoting diardi and giganteus as native to Australia. I did find a respectable site that stated that there were no Hyllus in Australia and was a case of everyone following a mistake made back in 1957. This is backed up by a search on Noah, where no Hyllus are recorded from Australia, nor could I find any other hyllus images from Australia.

Reliable sources for giganteus images are virtually nonexistent. I did manage to match an entomological sketch with an image; bald carapace, abdomen longitudinal thin stripe with symmetrical lateral stripes.

Just about all giganteus images on Google search are misidentified and are usually diardi. For two of the largest species of jumping spiders, it beggars belief that the information, even from the best sources, is sketchy at best.

I have so many unidentified salty images, I am getting a headache :)

Dave Posted 9 years ago
1. Ferdy Christant
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks for looking so deeply into it and congrats on your first species intro :)
  I found this page stating a distribution that includes Myanmar, Laos, China to Java:
  
  http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/30082 Posted 9 years ago
2. 1. Vodkaman
    
    Lion
    
    Looks good, I just registered.
    
    DAve
    Posted 9 years ago

Claire Hamilton

Lion

Fantastic photos Dave! I have an interest in spiders but certainly no expert and I can sympathise with your frustrations at trying to identify these little critters! Even the experts often struggle to identify down to species level as more often than not they would have to be examined under a microscope so don't feel bad! With over 5000 species of Salticidae alone it is indeed enough to give one a headache :)
I do look forward to more of your Salti images, identified or not. Posted 9 years ago
1. Vodkaman
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks Claire, for the nice words and the generous votes.
  
  I will be posting up a lot of unidentified stuff in the hope of help. I am putting up a lot of identified stuff first, to kinda pay for that help in advance :)
  
  Dave Posted 9 years ago

Vodkaman

Lion

Was permission given to use this image?

I found it on https://spideridentifications.com/hyllus-diardi.html?unapproved=1326&moderation-hash=50dca84d60fa9b81b2d511c4d178768f#comment-1326

Not happy!

Dave Posted 5 years ago