A jumping spider on Aciphylla. Apologies for my image.
A lovely black native harvestman with an interesting pattern on his back. Found in podocarp forest area.
These alpine jumping spiders never disappoint with their camouflage. In the Southern Alps, they are grey (see https://inaturalist.nz/observations/20903295), these ones in the Red Hills suit the red rocks perfectly. If you take your eye off them for a second to get the camera out, they are impossible to find again!
A female. Found in a garden at Waihi 28-3-17. The centre of her web was 2.4m above ground level and spanned 2m between two big shrubs. I watched her for 7 weeks in situ and added various bugs to her web which she fed on. Photo shows an adult female South African Mantis. When her web disintegrated in bad weather I brought her home and she lived in a terrarium for 12 weeks. During that time she made 2 golden egg sacs. She died on 8-8-17
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Tiny (~4mm) I believe this species is shown in Andrew Crowe's "Which New Zealand Spider" book as the undescribed "Cream jumping spider"..
While this doesn't have the pure white pedipalps that the one in Andrew's book does, it does have those two pronounced black spots in the red diamond on this spider's head - plus it is mentioned in Andrew's book that it was found Above Tairua on the Coromandel, this individual I found below Tairua.
Mating pair. The male seemed to be enticing the female with a tiny insect, though that could just be coincidental!
This was the first time I captured photos of S.trapezia doing in a katipo. It has remained on the top of my hit list since then, with a few more incidents on katipo, a handful on Anoteropsis litoralis, and a few other species I'm less concerned about.
Location about 200m north of the OB surf club.
Collected in Cornwall Park yesterday during rain, hiding under bark.
Didn’t expect this guy to came up, I was trying to find some pseudo scorpions.
genus Euophrys ?
This one was jumping amongst the rocks, streamside.
I have seen this species on my property here in Dunedin many times, but never in "the wild".
Native mixed podocarp / broadleaf forest, resting on a tree trunk at night.
With cute juveniles!!!
iNatting with @emma_brockes.
Native bush, under a damp decomposing wood.
Probably undescribed.
Common under rocks on rock tors in the (sub-)alpine zones.
Atypically-patterned subadult male Opisthoncus, or something else??
Atypically-patterned subadult male Opisthoncus, or something else??
Three obs showing three individuals of @robingrace's undescribed scree Salticid.
This one was the most obliging. Female adult??
Swear I saw something scuttle away that looked very similar but was MUCH larger... Then again, they're so well camouflaged that it's really hard to judge scale when they're on the move.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563065
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563064
Found on BBQ cover.
Collected on 25 Jan while taking down malaise trap in KBU. Later moulted to ?maturity, as seen here.
Looks like "Trite mustilina" but revision of the group is about to begin so I'll leave it coarse.