#DailySpiderPic: a mature male pirate spider (family Mimetidae, compare to _Mimetus puritanus_). I got a nice shot of one of the pedipalps!

They might look like cobweb spiders at first glance, but the very spiky legs are distinctive.

#SpidersOfMastodon #arachnids #spiders #PirateSpiders #Araneae #Mimetidae

#NewSpecies of #PirateSpiders discovered on South Atlantic island https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2024/february/new-species-pirate-spiders-discovered-south-atlantic-island.html

Two new sympatric species of the pirate #spider genus Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 from the cloud forest of #SaintHelena Island, South Atlantic Ocean https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2417

"Having been confused for a closely related species, the 2 new #spiders have been hiding out on #StHelena for decades. Now newly recognised, it’s hoped the spiders will provide added impetus to preserve the island’s threatened #CloudForest."