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GUIDE TO COMMON MALAYSIAN SPIDERS

WEB-WEAVERS

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Orb web builders Builders of three-dimensional webs Spiders with cribellum and calamistrum
Orb-Web Spiders Big-Jawed Spiders
 
Araneidae Tetragnathidae
Comb-Footed Spiders Daddy-Long-Leg Spiders
Theridiidae Pholcidae
Feather-Legged Spiders Psechrid Spiders Tiny House Dwellers Net-Casting Spiders
Uloboridae Psechridae Oecobiiade Dinopidae

 

1) Orb web builders



Orb-Web Spiders (Araneidae)

Hasselt's Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha hasseltii)
Doria's Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha doriae)
Curved Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha arcuata)

Batik Golden Web Spider (Nephila antipodiana)


 

Capped Black-Headed Spider (Zygiella calyptrata)

Brown Sailor Spider (Neoscona nautica)

Malabar Spider (Nephilengys malabarensis)
Ornamental Tree-Trunk Spider (Herennia ornatissima)
Multi-coloured St Andrew's Cross Spider (Argiope versicolor)





Double-Spotted Spiny Spider (Gasteracantha mammosa)
Kidney Garden Spider (Araneus mitificus)

Common Garden Spider (Parawixia dehaani)

Brown-Legged Spider (Neoscona rufofemorata)
Island Cyclosa Spider (Cyclosa insulana)
Scarlet Acusilas (Acusilas coccineus)
Flat Anepsion (Anepsion depressium)
Scorpion Spider (Arachnura sp.)

Tree-Stump Spider (Poltys illepidus)
Beccari's Tent Spider (Cyrtophora beccarii)
Double-tailed Tent Spider (Cyrtophora exanthematica)
Red Tent Spider (Cyrtophora unicolor)

Big-Jawed Spiders (Tetragnathidae)

 

   
Pear-Shaped Leucauge (Opadometa fastigata)

Male: 3.5 mm.  Female: 8-9 mm. 

 



Mangrove Big-Jawed Spider (Tetragnatha josephi)
Silver Leucauge (Leucauge argentina)

Striated Tylorida (Tylorida striata)
Big-Bellied Tylorida (Tylorida ventralis)
 


2) Builders of three-dimensional webs

Comb-Footed Spiders (Theridiidae)

Silver Comb-Footed Spider (Argyrodes bonadea)
(easy confused with Argyrodes argentatus)
Red Silver Spider (Argyrodes flavescens)
Sometime misteken as 
 Argyrodes miniaceus

Female 3.5mm-5mm


Rolled-Leaf Comb-Footed Spider (Achaearanea mundulum)
Golden Comb-Footed Spider (Chrysso sp.)
Split-Faced Silver Spider (Argyrodes fissifrons)
Whip Spider (Argyrodes flagellum)



Daddy-Long-Leg Spiders (Pholcidae)




Round-Bodied Daddy-Long-Leg (Physocyclus globosus)
Leaf-Dwelling Daddy-Long-Leg (Uthina atrigularis)
 


3) Spiders with cribellum and calamistrum



Feather-Legged Spiders (Uloboridae)

Humped Spider (Zosis geniculatus)



Twig-Like Feather-Legged Spider (Miagrammopes sp.)


Psechrid Spiders (Psechridae)
Singapore Psechrus (Psechrus singaporensis)


Tiny House Dwellers (Oecobiiade)
Common Tiny House Dweller (Oecobius sp.)


Net-Casting Spiders (Dinopidae)
Ogre-Faced Spider (Dinopis sp.)


HUNTERS


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Spiders with three-clawed legs Spiders with two-clawed legs Spiders with two pairs of book-lungs


1) Spiders with three-clawed legs (6 Families)
Scytodes ABACA
Spitting Spiders (Family Scytodidae)

Brown Spitting Spider (Scytodes ABACA)


 


Ground Spiders (Zodariidae)
Spotted Ground Spider (Storena cinctipes)

   

 




 


Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae)



Wolf Spiders (Lycosidae)

  White-Dotted Wolf Spider (Venonia coruscans)


Nursery Web Spiders (Pisauridae)
Four-Spotted Nursery Web Spider (Eurychoera quadrimaculata)
Singapore Fishing Spider (Thalassius sp.)
Flexible-Legged Spider (Hygropoda prognatha)
Brown Grass Spider (Polyboea vulpina)
Single-Striped Grass Spider (Perenethis unifasciata)

 


2) Spiders with two-clawed legs (6 Families)

 

Crab Spiders (Family Thomisidae)

   
   
   
   
   


Stoliczka's Crab Spider (Thomisus stoliczka)
Diamond-Bellied Crab Spider (Angaeus rhombifer)
Nepenthes Crab Spider (Misumenops nepenthicola)
Green Crab Spider (Dieta virens)
Litter Crab Spider (Borboropactus sp.)
Bird-Dung Crab Spider (Phrynarachne sp.)
Ant-Like Crab Spider (Amyciaea lineatipes)


 



Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)

Yellow-Lined Epeus
(Epeus flavobilineatus
)

Common House Jumper
(Menemerus bivittatus or Menemerus fulvus)
   
   
   

 

 

Mangrove Jumper (Ligurra latidens)


Elegant Golden Jumper (Chrysilla lauta)
Horned Grass Jumper (Evarcha flavocincta)

 


Multi-Coloured Phintella (Phintella versicolor)
Banded Phintella (Phintella vittata)
Larger Housefly Catcher (Plexippus paykulli)
Common Housefly Catcher (Plexippus petersi)
Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata)
Jolly Telamonia (Telamonia festiva)
Fighting Spider (Thiania bhamoensi)
Sword-Bearing Thorelliola (Thorelliola ensifera)
Wide-Jawed Viciria (Viciria praemandibularis)

Unusual Jumping Spiders of the Subfamily Spartaeinae
Grey Cocalus (Cocalus murinus)
White-Moustached Portia (Portia labiata)
Malayan Phaeacius (Phaeacius malayensis)
Spiny-Legged Jumper (Spartaeus spinimanus)
Ant-mimicking Jumping Spiders (Genus Myrmarachne and Agorius)
Giant Ant-Like Jumper (Myrmarachne maxillosa)
Kerengga Ant-Like Jumper (Myrmarachne plantaleoides)
Constricted Agorius (Agorius constrictus)

Wandering Spiders (Ctenidae)
White-Striped Wandering Spider (Anahita sp.)

Sac Spiders (Clubionidae)
Slender Sac Spider (Chiracanthium sp.)
Stout Sac Spider (Clubiona sp.)
Grainy Oedignatha (Oedignatha scrobiculata)
Ant-Mimicking Sac Spiders (Genus Castianeira and Apochinomma)



Huntsman Spiders (Sparassidae)
Domestic Huntsman Spider (Heteropoda venatoria)

 


3) Spiders with two pairs of book-lungs (1 Family)


 

   


Theraphosidae (Hairy Mygalomorph Spiders)
Singapore Tarantula (Phlogiellus inermis)

 

More about Malaysian spiders  10-7-2009  January 29, 2010 07:36:33 PM

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