Tropical spiders

All the spiders you see here were photographed within Malaysia - mostly in the Peninsula. Only a couple of them were photographed in Sabah (East Malaysia, Borneo).

Ant-mimic crab spider, Amyciaea lineatipes, mating! More bugs porn here:D


A male ant-mimic crab spider, Amyciaea lineatipes, with weaver ant prey


Orange crab spider on purple wildflower


A female Bolas spider with a much smaller male, Cyrtarachne fangchengensis


Common Garden Spider, Parawixia dehaani


A mating pair of lichen huntsman spiders. Natural light. Tips on natural light macro photography here.


Tiny jumping spider with caterpillar prey. More jumping spiders here.


Ogre faced spider / net casting spider /gladiator spider, Deinopidae.


A nursery web spider with wasp prey?


 A Malaysian black and gold huntsman (family Sparassidae,Tube-dwelling spiders) and a daredevil yellow crazy ant! LOL. Huge spider, 25mm body length!


A Lynx spider with beetle prey


A pinkish crab spider


A female green jumping spider guarding her precious eggs...the eggs were about to hatch anytime soon!


Jumping spider with newly hatched spiderlings. More motherly love from the invertebrates here.


A wolf spider momma with spiderlings on her back


Ant mimic jumping spider. More mimicry here.


Another ant-mimic jumping spider, Myrmarachne plataleoides


A nursery web spider with jumping spider prey


A green lynx spider with red Pentatomidae bug prey, from Danum Valley.


Portia spider.


Bird dung crab spider with wasp prey, Maliau Basin.


Green huntsman spider


Another gorgeous green huntsman on pink Cordyline terminalis plant. Merged from 4 shots. Tutorial on merging here.


A beautiful spiny orb weaver, Gasteracantha arcuata


A handsome male Orsima ichneumon wasp mimic jumping spider.


A female Herennia spider.


A nursery web spider with eggsac.


Heurodes spider?


Spitting spider, Scytodes velutina(?) with babies.


Mommy spitting spider sharing her moth prey with her precious spiderlings :)


A closer look:


Male Long-jawed Orb Weaver Tetragnathidae


Huntsman spider with eggssac. The spiderlings were about the hatch!


Huntsman spider with newly hatched spiderlings