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Miranda wrote:
24 Dec 2024
Lovely! Thank you @AlisonMilton.

Aporocera (Aporocera) iridipennis
HelenCross wrote:
23 Dec 2024
An interesting-looking little beetle!

Aporocera (Aporocera) iridipennis
AlisonMilton wrote:
22 Dec 2024
First sighting for the region

Aporocera (Aporocera) iridipennis
YumiCallaway wrote:
18 Nov 2024
Hi everyone, great discussion, I agree with @Husky and @Harrisi here and have just changed the ID. Glad I stumbled across this, I see it's been 6 years! I will leave a few notes here :)

I would recommend https://www.peacockspider.org/ which has been built up by Jurgen Otto for some splendid photos of various peacock spiders. It may help with your future quests to find a visual ID! As Stuart has said, the number of Maratus species only continue to grow (over 110 now), so start off with the ones that look like yours.

Beginning with the abdomen, you might notice that there are quite a few males who have a very similar abdomen pattern as this one! I like to think of it as a circle with dots in the middle; though it isn't quite so. Look closely at the carapace — how are they different? Colour, pattern? Are there any shapes you can recognise?

It is well worth a look putting some of these photos next to each other to spot some differences :)

Maratus splendens
Tapirlord wrote:
27 Sep 2024
With that column I do agree that it looks like Malvina. I’ll check if it get this far south.

Cyanicula caerulea
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