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Dual colored spider/Fighting spider(Female)

Thiania bhamoensis

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Field Notes

Description:

This is a dual-colored spider.. The species is iridescent green-blue. From one angle it looks blue in color and in another angle it looks green in color..!! From the front view, the female's face is black..

Habitat:

Common in the leaves of garden plants, and in forest herbs.Thiania species is distributed throughout the South-East Asia.

Notes:

These spiders are commonly seen on leaves. The cephalothorax is flat and longer than broad. The abdomen is elongated, rounded at the front end and converging steadily to the spinnerets. Cephalothorax is black or dark colour and followed by a broad, crescent-shaped band of iridescent, bronze-coloured, squamose hairs. First pair of legs are slightly swollen and larger than others.

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (47)

A very beautiful spider and an amazing photograph sumukha!
Thanks OnengDyah and Yuriana..:-) This spider had amazing and glittering colors..!
Cool..., that patterm and colour it' s really pretty...great spotting.
Thank you so much Carol..! That means a lot to me. Im happy that you are no more feared about spiders and you have started to like them..:-)
I can't believe what a year brings... from fear of spiders for me to absolute wonderment and amazement of all the beautiful spiders you have found in your part of the world. Great!
Yes jolly.. It had amazing green and blue colors on its body..!
Thank u AzuraFirdausW.. Blue-green combination looks great on this spider..!
Hahaha... We have gathered at same specie with search with references... so there is no doubt of specie...!!
I'm so glad you have an ID, SumukhaJavagal! Yes Ashish, that's why I said it was in question.
Cindy (?) for non confirmed specie naming person or dispute caused question mark. Its not for specie...
Thank u very much for dedicating some time for the Identification of this -Ashish & Cindy.. The southindiaspiders link solves al my confusions..:-)
Ashish, that's the link I provided him earlier but you'll notice the title says "Thiania cf. (?) bhamoensis". This spider is obviously known in India but the species name is in question.
This will clear all your doubts... http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/thiania/bham-kerala-ph.htm
http://www.southindianspiders.org/south-indian-spiders2.htm
Thanks for the link CindyBinghamKeiser.. Im also unsure about "Thiania bhamoensis" being found in India or not.. It may be a different sub-species.. Not getting enough detail about this..:-(
http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/thiania/bham-kerala-ph.htm I'm not sure if they're uncertain of the ID when they say "Thiania cf. (?) bhamoensis"
Thank u jgorneau..:) This is the only spotting in PN of this species from Indian region.. But in wiki link that i have provided, it is given that this species is found from Burma to Sumatra.. Are these species also found in India or is this a different species?? Need someone's help regarding this issue..
Thank u OnengDyah.. Itz colors were glittering in sunlight..!

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