| Latin Name | Observation Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Carrhotus viduus | August 27, 2026 | Natore, Bangladesh |
One of my hobbies is to find various animals scattered all over nature. Being an agronomist by profession, I am always a little interested in the environment around the crops. Recently, while walking in the field, a beautiful jumping spider or jumping spiderRaught my eye on a leaf of grass and I immediately captured it on camera. The spider you see in my photos is basically a female spider. The body color of female spiders is usually orange and they have various beautiful yellow and orange patterns on their abdomen.
Scientific name:
This interesting spider has a specific scientific name. In the scientific world, it is known as Carrhotus viduus. In 1846, scientist C. L. Koch was the first to give its scientific name. It has some other synonyms or synonyms, such as Plexippus viduus or Marpissa decorata.
Family Genus:
According to the scientific classification of biology, it belongs to the Arachnida class of the animal kingdom. They are mainly members of the Salticidae family and their genus or genus name in the scientific world is Carrhotus.
Indigenous and habitat:
In terms of geographical distribution, they are mainly found in various countries of our South and Southeast Asia, such as India, Sri Lanka, China, Myanmar and Vietnam. They usually prefer to live in tropical and subtropical forests or gardens. They are especially found in the dense foliage of small trees and shrubs.
Food:
Like other jumping spiders, they are also mainly predatory in nature. They do not weave webs like ordinary spiders to catch prey. Rather, they are very agile and hunt small insects (such as mosquitoes, flies, and grasshoppers) by jumping very quickly to meet their food.
Reproduction:
Their life cycle and reproduction process are quite simple. Female spiders lay eggs under the cover of leaves or in protected places. After the eggs hatch, the small spiders change their shells several times and gradually turn into full-fledged spiders.
Benefits:
They play a great role in maintaining the balance of the environment. They help in natural pest control by hunting harmful insects, especially mosquitoes and flies, in agricultural lands and around us. In the agricultural ecosystem, they benefit crops as a silent predator.
Disadvantages:
They are not directly harmful to humans in any way. They are very small and calm in nature. If they see any danger, they quickly jump and run away. They do not attack humans or have any toxic effects on humans, so they are completely safe for the environment and nature around us.
I hope you like the information.
I learned about them from various sites including iNaturalist, Wikipedia and Google.
*(All posts are written in Bengali and translated into English using Google Translate.) *
| Camera Used | Samsung SM-G973F |
|---|---|
| F-Stop | F2.4 |
| ISO speed | ISO |
| Focal length | 26mm |
| Flash | No |
| Editing app | Lightroom |
| Photography | (Carrhotus viduus) |
| Photographer |  @mshbd |
| Location | Natore, Bangladesh |
| Link to original community |
|---|
| https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/395385836 |
| Latitude | Longitude | Map Link |
|---|---|---|
| 24.3469 | 89.1147 | https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/24.3369/89.1147 |
