This is found near my pond these days. It does not weave a web to catch, but it makes a nest with white fibres (its own secretion). It comes out to catch its food/prey. It's now sitting on a water lettuce leaf.... and perhaps looking at me! Are those two dots eyes?
Could be, but spiders have more than two eyes, so your photo just doesn't show all of them.
How'bout this one? I brought him down from near the ventilator. Since ours is an old house, spiders thrive very well, even though I remove the cobwebs, say once in a month, they form so quickly. I am surprised with the hair on its slender legs!
Another shot. I saw another little one holding on to one of the legs there. I'd think it is from a different family, visiting the Uncle or Aunt.
The first one is a wolf spider, and the seconds.... um, i am not sure on that one, BUT it is a male and female, and they were probably about to mate before you interupted them, lol. The male is most normally, if not always smaller than the female. And females have bigger abdomens.
Okay. Isn't the proportion between the male and female too extreme? The male looks too small, doesn't it? In all my years of living in this, I hadn't seen one having as big an abdomen as this.
In the genus Tidarren, males are 1% of the females size!
claypa,
That's an astounding statistical figure! Incredible proportion. What species could the one above be? Any identification possible?
I don't know. Have a look at the family Theridiidae, comb-footed or cob web spiders. They have a small thorax and a large abdomen like your spider. Also, the males are much smaller than the females. This site might help, but the pictures of Theridiidae don't look like your spider. . .
http://www.southindianspiders.com/spider-families.htm
I found that yahoo has a group about the spiders of India, I bet they could identify your spider.
Okay, i did some searching and i am 90% sure it is a spider in the family of Pholcidae (Cellar spiders). The leg proportions are right and so is the face, the only thing that worries me is the size and color of the abdomen, it looks very large, BUT i still believe i am correct, it is most likely pregnant....lol
I can believe that! Maybe one these, the one on top? Only fatter. . .
http://www.southindianspiders.com/south-indian-spiders2.htm#pholcidae
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I have seen the spider carrying eggs separately outside its body, but not like this round thing.
if you are talking about the wolf spider than YES, they do carry the eggs outside on their back. The Cellar spider should make a sack i think.
I'll try to catch a pic of the ubiquitous spiders that spin their webs all over the house. That should be a good clue to know what the one above is.
Hi Dinu,
Here's a link I found that may help you. http://www.southindianspiders.com/south-indian-spiders.htm I didn't see these spiders but maybe for future pictures. You might look towards the 'fishing' spiders for your first spider picture
Stacey
Thank you Stacey. Will look in detail in leisure. It seems to be a very useful link for my future use as well.
Dinu
