Telamonia dimidiata

Taxobox
name = Two-Striped Telamonia


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regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Salticidae
genus = "Telamonia"
species = "T. dimidiata"
binomial = "Telamonia dimidiata"
binomial_authority = (Simon, 1899)
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synonyms ="Viciria dimidiata"
"Phidippus pateli"

The two-striped telamonia ("Telamonia dimidiata"), is a jumping spider found in various Asian tropical rain forests, in foliage in wooded environments.

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 [Murphy & Murphy 2000:300] . The male is very dark, with white markings, and red hairs around the eyes.

Distribution

They occur in Singapore (new record), Indonesia, India, Bhutan.

Email hoax

In 2002 , the spider became the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. 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". It has also been found that similar email hoaxes(details of original changed here and there) has been found in other parts of the world claiming that the same thing happened in that country. No such events ever occurred. [Snopes: [http://www.snopes.com/horrors/insects/telamonia.asp Urban Legends Reference Pages: Two-Striped Telamonia Spider] . Retrieved 2007-FEB-25.]

Footnotes

References

* (2000): An Introduction to the Spiders of South East Asia. "Malaysian Nature Society", Kuala Lumpur.
* (2007): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.0. "American Museum of Natural History".

External links

* [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/telamon/dimidiat.htm Description]
* [http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/cactus.html Spider myths and hoaxes]
* Salticidae.org: [http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/telamon/dimidiat.htm Color photographs of both sexes]