First of all, I apologize for the blown orange hairs, I had to salvage this image from a pretty underexposed photo.
Found this little one (~3-4mm) on an outside window sill. I'm not at all familiar with this genus, and at the time of writing this, I don't know the species or even the gender. A nice looking spider, the colorations and patterns of scales are great. The palps have some interesting hairs as well.
Taken at ~7:1 with the 28mm reversed to the bellows at f/5.6.
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EDIT (11/6/08): I contacted Wayne Maddison about this spider, as I couldn't find an entry for it on bugguide.net. He identified it as a female Sitticus fasciger.
For an interesting paper on this species, see here.
Pretty exciting stuff, this is a whole new genus for me, and an interesting spider as well. Looks as though they first came to the US in the late 1950's.
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jhaskellus 51 months ago | reply
Outstanding macro.
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shutryk 51 months ago | reply
wonderful shot!amazing!!!
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Very good capture. You have an excellent macro lens too.
lauradtown 51 months ago | reply
The amount of detail is stunning!!
Dieghito61 51 months ago | reply
Excellent shot !!!
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preetalina ° Preeti Desai 51 months ago | reply
Oh my, this is amazing!!! Gross but absolutely amazing!
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muscapix 50 months ago | reply
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called face de mouche.....MACRO...... faces of flies, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
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Fanny Welker 48 months ago | reply
Amazing picture! (:
MacroJussi [deleted] 36 months ago | reply
Oh my g...
This is amazing....
Badger Waffle 35 months ago | reply
This is stunning! I love the fact you shot with with a reversed lens, just goes to show you don't need a shed load of gear to make a photograph! *****
Giovanni Róttoli 26 months ago | reply
por el amor de dios, que grandioso D:
god, that's amazing, you're great. congratulations >.<
Kaptah 26 months ago | reply
Great!
Ricard Soriano 26 months ago | reply
Is amazing. Your work is fantastic.
JavierAndrés 13 months ago | reply
that's an amazing detail, so clear!!! well done!
belthelem 12 months ago | reply
Excellent work!
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Macrosaurus Rex 12 months ago | reply
Wow, Amazing portrait Thomas! I pretty positive just found a juvenile of this species yesterday. I found the ID through bugguide.net, the history through wikipedia, and while looking for more proof I found this photo of yours. Hope you don't mind but I used the link you shared of the paper. I hope one day to get shots like this one!