| Latin Name | Observation Date | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Oxyopes javanus | Jun 20, 2026 | Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh |
Macro photography captures the extraordinary forms of nature around us. The attractive spider seen sitting on a leaf, catching prey, is known to the common people as the 'lynx spider'. It is a very fast and skilled hunter.
Scientific name:
According to the scientific classification of biology, the scientific name of this spider is Oxyopes javanus. In 1887, the famous scientist Tamerlan Thorell first described and named it based on a specimen collected from Java, Indonesia. It has several other synonyms in the scientific world, such as Oxyopes lineatipes or Oxyopes hotingchiehi.
Family and Genus:
This lynx spider is a wonderful member of the vast Arthropoda phylum and the Arachnida class of the animal kingdom. They are mainly included in the Oxyopidae family under the Araneae order. Their genus or genus name is Oxyopes.
Size and body structure:
The male and female spiders of this species look slightly different, which is called sexual dimorphism in scientific terms. The head and chest (cephalothorax) of female spiders are a mixture of yellow and orange, with four black spots along the length. Their eight eyes are arranged in a hexagonal shape, with the front middle eyes being the smallest and the front side eyes being the largest. Their abdomen is elongated and gradually narrows towards the back. There are white longitudinal spots on the abdomen and gray horizontal spots on the sides, and the entire body is covered with small white hairs. Their legs are quite long, slender, yellowish and spiny. Male spiders look very similar to females, but their reproductive organs, or pedipalps, are different, which are covered in thick brown hairs.
Habitat and habitat:
These spiders are widely distributed in South and Southeast Asian countries. They are found in abundance in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and China. They usually prefer to live in agricultural lands, especially rice and corn fields.
Food:
Like other common spiders, they do not weave webs and wait for prey. They mainly hunt during the day (diurnal hunter). They can run very fast on crop leaves and jump from one tree trunk or leaf to another very accurately to catch prey. Their main food is corn borer larvae and other harmful insects of the lepidopteran order in rice or maize fields.
Reproduction:
Their reproductive and genetic system is quite good. The XX-XO chromosome system works to determine their sex. Female spiders have a total of 24 chromosomes (22 autosomes and XX) in their bodies and male spiders have 23 chromosomes (22 autosomes and XO).
Benefits:
These lynx spiders are very beneficial in our agricultural system and ecosystem. They play a very important role in controlling economically harmful insects in agricultural fields, especially in rice and maize fields. By hunting and eating harmful insects, they are of great benefit to farmers as natural pest control agents or biological control agents.
Harmfulness:
They are not harmful to humans or the environment. Rather, they help maintain the natural balance of the environment by destroying harmful insects in the crop fields. They are not poisonous and act as true friends of farmers in nature.
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.) *
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| Camera Used | Samsung SM-G973F |
|---|---|
| F-Stop | F2.4 |
| ISO speed | ISO |
| Focal length | 26mm |
| Flash | No |
| Editing app | Lightroom |
| Photography | (Oxyopes javanus) |
| Photographer |  @mshbd |
| Location | Purulia, Natore, Bangladesh |
| Link to original community |
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| https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/374825939 |
| Latitude | Longitude | Map Link |
|---|---|---|
| 24.3360 | 89.1134 | https://www.openstreetmap.org/?#map=12/24.3360/89.1134 |
