Huge Mittens - _TNY_7720 (In Explore 16/8 2020)
Some time ago this cute little jumping spider which is enjoying a freshly caught fly would be known as a Sitticus terebratus, but after a name revision, this is now a Attulus terebratus.
I shot him without food (and saw him give a female a kiss!), but he was way less calm then.
After coming back with the MP-E65mm on the camera and found him with the fly, he was way calmer and I could gradually get closer and closer until I got this one which is at 4.8:1 magnification.
Since male spiders use their pedipalps (the short "arms") to transfer the sperm to the female, adult males have significantly thicker pedipalps, leading to them looking like these almost mitten-like ones.
Huge Mittens - _TNY_7720 (In Explore 16/8 2020)
Some time ago this cute little jumping spider which is enjoying a freshly caught fly would be known as a Sitticus terebratus, but after a name revision, this is now a Attulus terebratus.
I shot him without food (and saw him give a female a kiss!), but he was way less calm then.
After coming back with the MP-E65mm on the camera and found him with the fly, he was way calmer and I could gradually get closer and closer until I got this one which is at 4.8:1 magnification.
Since male spiders use their pedipalps (the short "arms") to transfer the sperm to the female, adult males have significantly thicker pedipalps, leading to them looking like these almost mitten-like ones.