Monomad: Telamonia Jumper

A pair of sparkling round eyes stared intently; those eyes never blinked. Actually, there are more than two eyes, but the biggest ones are only those two eyes.

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The telamonia jumper or two-striped jumper (Telamonia dimidiata) crawling on the leaves, I immediately recognized.

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The body of the jumper is white and translucent, indicating she is a female jumper. A thick mustache covers the jaws, and she has hairy legs.

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Her abdomen was fat; it seemed to hold a lot of eggs.

The jumper moved so nimbly but was reluctant to leave her place. Of the many jumping spiders I've seen, this one seems easier to capture; I think this was just luck.


This is another entry I submitted for the daily #monomad challenge.

All of the images here are my own work, taken with a Xiaomi POCO NFC smartphone and an assembled external macro lens.

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