Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 11d

Nyctimus rendang Dhiya’ulhaq & Benjamin, sp. nov.
"The epithet refers to a meat dish associated with the cuisine of the Minangkabau people from West Sumatra. The meat is slow-cooked in a plethora of spices, giving it a dark colouration."

another top tier name from @kalakemangga.bsky.social lmao

Taxonomic notes on the crab-spider genera Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 and Zametopina Simon, 1909 (Araneae, Thomisidae) with descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia

The crab-spider genera Zametopina Simon, 1909 and Nyctimus Thorell, 1877 remain poorly studied, with significant gaps in their taxonomic understanding. Nyctimus has seen little study since its origina...

zookeys.pensoft.net

1 3 19

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Jul 30

A collection of crab spiders from Indonesia's Jambi Province revealed five new species and one new genus. See more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

@uni-goettingen.de @kalakemangga.bsky.social ‪‬ #arachnids #biodiversity #taxonomy

1 7

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · 28d

Behold!

Eleven new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sumatra by @kalakemangga.bsky.social

Eleven new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sumatra | European Journal of Taxonomy

europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu

5 12 81

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

The Onion @theonion.com · Jan 26

Biologists Unveil New Taxonomic System Classifying Species By Hotness
theonion.com/biologi...

47 200 2.5K

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Jan 16

Youre welcome. I think i have thought that it looks similar to Araneus stella, but again the spines are weird

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

Nicky Bay @nickybay.bsky.social · Jan 16

Has anyone seen and identified these large (~10mm) male araneids before? Longitudinal fovea, shoulder horns and stout tibia II with a distal pair of spines.

Not many araneids have large males so that narrows down quite a bit. Specimens found in Singapore.

2 5 51

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Jan 16

I do have a male specimen from Java. It looks like it "might" be similar to Araneus s.s., but the way the spines look (esp. what appears to be the mating spine) made me wonder if this is just superficial and instead closer to australasian backobourkines

1

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Jan 15

Literally comb-footed spider

2 6

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 31

Ending 2024 with hadrotarsines.
Cute little fuckers

3

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 29

Řezáč, M. (2009). The spider Harpactea sadistica: co-evolution of traumatic insemination and complex female genital morphology in spiders. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 276: 2697-2701. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0104

1

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 29

1 5

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 25

Just realized how smaller it is so probably not D. gigas but something with similar coloration

2

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 25

Just identified this observation as Serendib, a rather rare ant-mimicking corinnid spider. This particular one seem to be mimicking D. gigas, but with its abdomen as the head

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

1 4 15

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 25

Youre welcome!
They are absolutely gigantic!

1 1

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

franz @franzanth.bsky.social · Dec 20

Have yourself a merry little Carboniferous.
#Art #SciArt #PaleoArt #Inverts

a pine tree with bugs hanging all around it. at the very top is a dragonfly-like meganeura with open wings, circling the base is the giant millipede arthropleura. on the branches sit various insects and circular pine cones.

60 1.2K 4.5K

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · Dec 18

Any spider people out there recognize this palp? Theridiid (presumably) from corners of walls etc. Inside houses, Colombo, Sri Lanka. A small sketch in a stack of old drawings, 1980s. Must surely be a well known & widely distributed synanthropic spider. Sorry, no habitus sketch or other info.

Sketch of male pedipalp of an unknown spider (Theridiidae?) from inside houses, Colombo, Sri Lanka.

1 4

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 17

Absolute unit of a wolf spider. Large lycosids seem to be not as common in Southeast Asia as they are elsewhere. Perhaps in competition with ctenids?

1 4

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 16

Undescribed Katya from Bali. The genus is (so far) endemic to Indonesia, found on the mountains of Java to Lesser Sundas

www.inaturalist.org/observations...

Genus Katya

Katya in January 2019 by Tiziano Hurni-Cranston

www.inaturalist.org

3 11

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 15

Here you go
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Molecular phylogenetics of nursery web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae)

Pisauridae Simon, 1890, or nursery web spiders, are a large family with a worldwide distribution and very diverse life history strategies. Despite bei…

www.sciencedirect.com

1 1 2

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 15

Aint no one gonna tell me Dolomedes will be split from Pisauridae? This is huge

1 2

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 15

"The genus Titanidiops in South-east Asia" by Schwendinger, Huber & Hongpadharakiree (2024)"

The family Idiopidae is now formally recorded in Indonesia with Titanidiops insularis (but might in fact be a separate, cryptic species from the Thai holotype)

bioone.org/journals/rev...

The genus Titanidiops in South-east Asia (Arachnida: Araneae: Idiopidae)

Five Titanidiops species are described: T. birmanicus Schwendinger & Huber, sp. nov. (♂♀) and T. tenuis Schwendinger, sp. nov. (♂♀) from Myanmar, T. sayamensis Schwendinger & Hongpadharakiree, sp. nov...

bioone.org

1 3

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Dec 15

Illustration from Brehms' Tierleben Bd.2 (1911) showcasing some spiders from Java.
There are 4 well-known species here: Nephila pilipes, Macracantha arcuata, Platythomisus octomaculatus, and Argiope catenulata (missidentified as Nephila antipodiana)

2 7

Reposted by Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq

Priyantha Wijesinghe @elaphrornis.bsky.social · Nov 28

I feel I’ve waited all my life for iNaturalist.
www.inaturalist.org

1 3 12

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Nov 28

Some beautiful Torajan Tongkonan from Rantepao, South Sulawesi

4 6

Naufal Urfi Dhiya'ulhaq @kalakemangga.bsky.social · Nov 27

Interlocking chelicerae of a mating Tetragnatha hasselti pair

4 23 86