User:Patrick Edwin Moran

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Snapped in Thailand, 1966
Leopard moth caterpillar
Xysticus ferox
Hogna h, immature male
Hogna h, immature male
Rabidosa punctulata, mature female
Castianeira sp, female
Castianeira sp
Castianeira sp
Castianeira sp
Castianeira sp
Coras medicinalis
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2mm body length

I am interested in spiders. I am located at 36° N 80° W.

Genus Avicularia[edit]

  • Avicularia bicegoi

  • Todd Gearheart thinks it may be a hybrid of A. bicegoi with A. huriana

  • Same Avic, another view

  • Avicularia metallica (immature)

  • Avicularia metallica

  • Avicularia metallica (ventral view

Genus Brachypelma[edit]

  • Brachypelma smithi female

Genus Oxiopes[edit]

  • Male Oxyopes salticus

Genus Phidippus[edit]

  • Phidippus audax (1) 10 mm. Female. She keeps a watchful eye on the photographer.

  • Phidippus audax (2) Note "lifeline" that protects her from falling.

  • Phidippus audax (3) These spiders are capable of giving defensive bites.

  • Female Phidippus johnsani (?) 14 mm.

  • Large, slow moving, and attractive, some are bright red and may tempt children.

  • These spiders will give defensive bites.

  • Phidippus octopunctatis, perhaps the largest U.S. jumping spider.

  • This female is 16 mm. long. She is very slow moving.

  • Quite calm and unobtrusive, these spiders may give defensive bites.

  • Phidippus whitmani(?) Calm but active, she seems not to fear the photographer.

  • Phidippus workmani(?) 10 mm. She is shy and wary.

  • Phidippus workmani(?) facing the camera

  • Phidippus workmani(?) orienting cephalothorax upward toward camera

  • Phidippus mystaceus 12 mm. female

Genus Thiodina[edit]

  • Note the four eyes forming corners of a square and the central white spot

  • Note the /\ pattern at the back of the carapace

  • Note that underside of spider can be seen

  • Thiodina sylvana Top-down 1.jpg
  • Thiodina sylvana Top-down 2.jpg
  • Thiodina sylvana head-on.jpg

Genus Paraphidippus[edit]

  • Paraphidippus aurantius

  • Paraphidippus aurantius

Genus Pisaurina[edit]

  • Pisaurina sp., mira or brevipes. Male, 17mm

  • Pisaurina mira

  • Pisaurina mira

  • Pisaurina mira

  • Pisaurina mira, female

Genus Platycryptus[edit]

  • Platycryptus undatus

Tangled Web Weavers[edit]

  • female, 2 mm. May be Enoplognatha ovata or some other member of the Theridiidae. Also may be a member of the Pholcidae family.

  • Side view also shows ventral aspect

  • head, seen from the front. Note eye pattern and prominent ridges near the eyes.

  • Ventral aspect. Note ivory-like area on the soma near the cephalothorax.

  • From the side, the area near the cephalothorax can been seen to protrude and come to a point.

  • Unfortunately this spider escaped, so not all identifying characteristics were photographed.

Anyphaenidae[edit]

  • dorsal view Family Anyphaenidae,possibly a Hibana sp.

  • ventral view Family Anyphaenidae,possibly a Hibana sp.

  • Sac spider (Aysha velox)

  • Male Aysha velox

Pholcidae[edit]

Spermophora[edit]

  • Spermophora senoculata 013732.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata 011819.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata 010747.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata plumose 020905.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata pedipalps.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata 023327.jpg
  • Spermophora senoculata 011318.jpg

Hogna species[edit]

  • Hogna carolinensis, female, 25mm body length.

Other species[edit]

  • Araneus cingulatus, a species that builds its web in tree crowns. It is about 4 mm. long. This spider was collected in central North Carolina, USA.

  • Digitally enhanced image of a Sphodros rufipes that shows the nearly perfectly vertical orientation of the chelicerae, a prime characteristic of the Mygalomorphae.

  • Sphodros rufipes (Atypical tarantulas)

  • G. rosea, adult, female

  • Digitally modified photograph showing "chopsticks" orientation of the chelicerae of the Araneomorphae.

  • Agelenopsis sp.

  • Agelenidae male 17mm.jpg
  • Agelenidae male palps 17mm.jpg
  • Agelenidae male side.jpg

  • Agelena labyrinthica

  • Leucauge venusta

  • Argiope aurantia, hanging down in its web

  • Argiope aurantia, three-quarters facing

  • Argiope aurantia, ventral view

  • Argiope aurantia, facing view

  • Frontinella pyramitela

  • Close-up of the preceding spider

  • Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

  • Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)

  • Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver)

  • Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Eyes)

  • Florinda coccinea (Blacktailed Red Sheetweaver) (Diagram of eyes.)

  • Arctosa sp. (resembles A. leopardus)

  • Same spider, different view.

  • From North Carolina, U.S.A.

  • Length is approx. 15 mm.

  • or about .75 inches

  • These pictures are of one female.

  • Hogna helluo

  • Hogna helluo, male

  • Hogna helluo, clearly showing the eye pattern typical of this genus.

  • Hogna frondicola

  • Rabidosa, rabida. Note two black front legs. Pedipalps are lighter than shown in this photograph.

  • Dolomedes scriptus

  • Pisaura mirabilis?

  • Platycryptus undatus exploring a human thumb

  • Platycryptus undatus 1

  • Platycryptus undatus 2

  • Platycryptus undatus 3

  • Paraphidippus aurantius

  • Paraphidippus aurantius

  • Huntsman spider (Heteropoda venatoria) eating a cricket

  • The same spider is carrying an empty egg case.

  • Ventral aspect, showing epigynum and spinnerets.

  • Leucauge venusta

  • Theridion tepidariorum

  • Dorsal view 1 Note that the red dot is formed by this spider's spinerettes.

  • Dorsal view 2 The "trademark" hourglass figure is not visible.

  • Dorsal view 3 This spider has an egg sac about the size of her abdomen. It it not visible in this picture.

  • In this picture, the black widow's characteristic red hourglass is clearly visible.

  • This spider has caught an insect in her web, has wrapped it in silk, and will soon eat it.

Diagrams[edit]

Eye patterns (modified photographs)[edit]

  • Hogna species

  • Eye pattern of the orb weaving spiders.

  • Eye pattern of the Plocidae (from above).

Other[edit]

  • Cephalothorax of a typical wolf spider.

  • Body parts of the spider.

  • Eye pattern of the orb weaving spiders.

  • Eye pattern of the wolf spiders. 1. Egg sac, 2. Chelicerae, 3. Pedipalps

  • "Squared-off" cephalothorax of the jumping spiders.

  • Eye pattern of the jumping spiders.

  • Ventral diagram of the typical spider.

  • Eye pattern of the Tetragnathidae.

  • Digitally modified photograph showing "chopsticks" orientation of the chelicerae of the Araneomorphae.

  • Digitally enhanced image of a Sphodros rufipes that shows the nearly perfectly vertical orientation of the chelicerae typical of the Mygalomorphae.

  • The fang portion folds back into the chelicera as the blade of a pocket knife folds back into its handle.

  • Cut-away drawing of the cephalothorax and chelicerae, with venom glands and surrounding muscles.

  • Drawing showing how the "fang" portion of the chelicera articulates with the main part of the chelicera, and how the latter articulates with the cephalothorax.

  • There is nothing very tricky here.

  • Difficult Sounds.GIF

  • Tetragnatha eye pattern

Physics[edit]

  • John Cramer's ansible

  • single and double split photo

  • Bright-line Spectrum-Hydrogen.svg

  • Beam split and fuse

  • Wheeler experiment problems

  • Wheeler analog split and fuse

  • Inter-galactic Wheeler

  • multi telescope status one

  • multi telescope status two

  • backtrack Young maxima

  • Kim et al. quantum eraser

  • Kim with polarizations indicated

  • double split apparatus with two

  • double split apparatus with three

  • Approximately 1 inch black post to black post

  • Cramer ansible

  • Kim apparatus+2 new front ends.svg
  • Cramer Retrocausal.svg
  • Walborn EtAl QuantumEraser numbered.svg
  • Walborn EtAl QuantumEraser.svg
  • Quasi Kim quasi Cramer experiment.svg
  • Wheeler astro lab.svg
  • Light Snapper.svg

  • Brian Greene, Fabric of the Cosmos, starting p. 107

  • Dribble over Strait

  • Modified Cramer Retrocausal schematic

  • 12 lü and 5 scales

  • Quznetsov RecorderAsClock.svg
  • OODA.Boyd.svg

Other creatures[edit]

  • Black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta) eating a rodent.

  • Skritz, whose parents were allegedly a German Shepherd and a Yellow Labrador Retriever.

mystery tarantula 36∘11‘ 44,20 N 80∘11' 49,76 W

Outside acquisitions[edit]

  • Thiania bhamoensis, used for spider fighting in Singapore

New[edit]

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_5-die_pattern.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_aft_end_cephalothorax.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_venter.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_Top-down_2.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_Top-down_1.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thiodina_sylvana_head-on.jpg

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