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Photo by LeonardoMB
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Field Notes

Description:

In a first look, I thought that was a very different spider... But, so I saw that actually was a spider... A dead spider with a lot of little mushrooms.
In two cases, one of them: or the spider died and the fungus takes your body. Or, this is a kind of parasite fungus that turns the spider on zombie for the spider go to a good place to the fungus grow up and take the spider body.
(I really am trusting more in the second one)

Habitat:

I found this specimen under a rock on my garden, in a region of transition between the Cerrado and Atlantic Forest.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
LeonardoMB
Uh! Cool António, thanks for advise!
AntónioGinjaGinja
Very nice capture Leonardo,i think you could add it to this mission created by Sérgio Monteiro http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/115956451 Congrats and thanks for sharing

Spotted for Missions

Mission
Mushroom Mapping
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International Spider Survey
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Brazil Life
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Arthropods parasitised by fungi
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PublishedNovember 30, 2014

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