Thread subject: Diptera.info :: Spider

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 31-05-2009 21:22
#1
App 1.5cm with the legs.
Pictured in Tanzania.

Id possible?
What is it carrying? Eggs? Why?
Thanks

Posted by Tony Irwin on 31-05-2009 21:57
#2
Lycosidae - female carrying its young - the female lays her eggs in a slik egg sac which she caries with her while hunting. When the eggs hatch, the young spiders cling on to their mother's abdomen until they are old enough to fend for themselves.

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 01-06-2009 07:50
#3
Wow. Thanks for the info!Smile
Is there any chance of id'ing the genus?

Posted by Tony Irwin on 01-06-2009 19:26
#4
Not by me!!! Grin - I find even the British lycosids are difficult!

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 01-06-2009 20:08
#5
Well okWink
Anybody else?

Posted by pwalter on 01-06-2009 23:10
#6
You would need a very close photo from underside of the female and one or more photos showing the pedipalpus of the male... Sometimes you even have to take the so-called epigyne of the female (sexual organ) apart and see the vulva under the epigyne to have a species ID Sad

Posted by Muhammad Mahdi on 02-06-2009 04:38
#7
woah!Shock

Thanks, Halloween came earlyGrin