♀Female 5.5mm
Kg Benuk 28-7-2014

More about this female Thorelliola ensifera

♂ Male  5.5mm

Family : Salticidae
Subfamily : Euophryinae
Genus : Thorelliola
Species : Thorelliola ensifera (Thorell, 1877)
(Malaysia to Sulawesi, Hawai'i)

SEMARAK 3 JULY 2009

(Malaysia to Sulawesi, Hawai'i) Borneo Island; Indonesia: Java, Sumatra; Malaysia: peninsula Malaya; Singapore; South Pacific Islands. often to be found on plants with broad leaves

The 'NOSE' of  male Thorelliola ensifera

In 2009 I photographed 2 individual Black Yellow spider of Bornao sub-species. Both spiders shown a "LONG SHARP NOSE LIKE PROJECTION" in the middle of the face.

The 'NOSE' is a pair of closely held horns projected from below the two front eyes. This pair of horns also accompany with 3 or more thick strong hairs from both side.

KEY FEATURES:
5mm Body Length.

CEPHALOTHORAX: Dark chestnut-brown in male, lighter in female. Male with a pair of strong upcurved appressed spines arising from below and between anterior median eyes, forming a horn-like projection.

ABDOMEN: Crossbanded in anterior two-thirds with two gold and one dark brown band dorsally, posterior third dark brown. Anterior gold band wider in male than in female.

LEGS: Short and stocky.

WEB: Do not web.

EYES: Eight in usual salticid arrangement.

PHOTOGRAPHED ON : SEMARAK 3 July 2009

PHOTOGRAPHED ON GUDANG #4 19 July 2009