#NewSpecies!
New jumping spider from #india just jumped in:

Mogrus pune

Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/870A879C-FF93-FFE3-9C92-6687FE3B9A34
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2026.1048.3249
#ejtaxonomy #MogrusPune

#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #fauna #invertebrates #arachnology #arachnids #spider #jumpingspider #jumper

Look at this cutie that posed for me once! 🕷️🤎

From 2023

I can't talk about a #Spood without also providing updates on the jumpers.

Claudia, may she rest in peace, is preserved in IPA in a small jar nowadays. Some of her clutches have definitely survived. Not counting the escape artists, or the wild clutches, we have Sam and Ivy. They're too small for "proper" portraits, but I'm going to try and come back to them in a future post. Sam is a lil chubby. Ivy is a lil wobbly.

The one currently pictured is Missy, short for "Lil Miss can't pick a fucking name" (reference to Hazbin Hotel). She hitchhiked on my person one day and clearly felt I was taking her to safety. Which wasn't exactly wrong. She's spoiled and gets to eat many flightless fruit flies, and mealworms and also clutches of unfertilized eggs. She never nated, so she'll lay eggsacs that don't hatch, and then brood for a few weeks before coming out of her ever growing hammock network. She's _fat_ nowadays. And she's very entertaining when hunting flies and worms.

#Spider #JumpingSpider #KatPics #BoldJumper #Spooder

Well, hello my teeny friend! Long time no see!

#JumpingSpider #arachnids 🕷️