Portia sp.

balam · Portia sp.

NOTE: Not finished yet.

Most of the academic info will most likely come from the works of Duane P. Harland and R. R. J. (Robert Robert Jackson)

Portia sp. (salticidae)

List:
P. africana
P. albimana
P. assamensis
P. crassipalpis
P. fimbriata
P. heteroidea,
P. hoggi
P. jianfeng
P. labiata
P. orientalis
P. quei
P. semifimbriata
P. songi

-thankfully there is ample information on some of these sp.-

Portia africana-

http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/portia/afric-ph.htm

Awesome Close up:

http://www.apbworks.co.nz/ft_02.htm

Still looking for this:

Jackson, R .R. & S .E .A . Hallas . 1986. Comparative
biology of Portia africana, P . albimana, P. fimbriata,
P. labiata, and P. shultzi, araneophagic,
web-building jumping spiders (Araneae : Salticidae)
: Utilisation of webs, predatory versatility,
and intraspecific interactions . New Zealand J .
Zool ., 13 :423-489.

Portia fimbriata-

IUCN Red List:
Not Evaluated.

US Federal List:
No special status.

CITES:
No special status Smile

http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/portia/fimbr-ph.htm

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich...information/Portia_fimbriata.html

This is a seriously awesome read on this sp.

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/203/22/3485.pdf

Portia labiata-

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1640513/posts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_labiata

http://habitatnews.nus.edu.sg/gui...s/spiders/text/Portia_labiata.htm

http://www.miiz.waw.pl/salticid/diagnost/portia/labiata.htm

...tbc

balam

LOOK AT THIS I SAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

http://www.apbworks.co.nz/flytiger/02.jpg

balam

Portia labiata

(I can't go back and edit so here is some more info)

http://jeb.biologists.org/cgi/reprint/97/1/441.pdf

http://ejour-fup.unifi.it/index.php/eee/article/viewFile/668/614

http://www.colostate.edu/Depts/En...es/en507/papers_2001/odenbeck.htm

This is presumed to be Portia labiata but I can't confirm that.

http://www.imvite.com/video/-Portia-labiata---0033/t/5857579

The slow movement is in fact intentional as they are very well camouflaged to pass as detritus in the wild.

Some more awesome pictures:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=176212

Portia's predator (good to mention this is bound to happen, Portia however has it's ways of usually getting around to eating Scytodes)

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1134/is_9_110/ai_80061806/

cacoseraph

if they aren't cites you might be able to find a way to get them from the philipines (assuming someone does a legal import). these spiders would be amazing to have in the hobby. some are quite crazy looking in addition to all the fun behavior

and you don't see an edit button next to the quote button?

balam

720 minutes lapse to be able to edit.

I'm definitely looking at where to get them ('cause I WILL get them Wink

), at least I hope so.

BTW, I decided to finally put an avatar up. I like these spiders so damn much Smile

Bastian Drolshagen

you guys know what those feed on?
Probably won´t be easy to keep them (I´d compare them to Mimetidae, which feed on Theridiidae)...

balam

I have it in my head that if I can get my hands on enough Scytodes and am able to breed them I will have enough supply. As far as I know Portia sp. will also eat other jumping spiders (tons of them available), plus I've read they will in fact eat other insects (they may not be exclusively araneophagic Wink

).
If I can get a setup which can be divided (think breeding cage to the max Smile

), and have the prey spider on one side, give it enough time to build a web, and maintain P. labiata (or P. fimbriata) on the other half, then open the middle and allow Portia sp. to do it's thing. I can maintain Portia on whichever half and prey on the other. This is all theory but I hope it works in practice.

Scytodes would fun to keep at any rate.

Steven

balam

J. queensladicus would be fun as well (and they would serve as food for Portia sp.), but they are in Australia Sad

.

balam

well a man can dream...
but.., if anyone is working on an import, and may be able to get some of these in there just shoot me a PM Wink

balam

ha ha

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/a...stralian-jumping-spider-video.htm

Celeste

That is SO FREAKIN' COOL!!! I have always thought that Jumping Spiders seemed extra intelligent (from the way they can turn their heads to look at you).

Hey, I have NO shortage of cobweb spiders I could feed them, if they would eat 'em.

balam

Now these are so intelligent that I wouldn't be surprised if they 'learned' how to do the correct call... then again, they have the tangled-prey-waiting-to-be-eaten call down to the t.
Did anyone notice the use of the palps in the distress call, just amazing Smile

Celeste

Well, if you get some (legally), let me know!