Shreyas Kuchibhotla
Biology DPhil student at Oxford - Snakes, spiders and centipedes (and their toxins) | Writer | TEDx speaker | Photographer
- I think people (including myself) fail to realise just how diverse arthropods are! I was recently humbled when attempting to ID a Schizomid - a distant cousin of an arachnid group I’m very familiar with - and was presented with the beautiful and thoroughly incomprehensible word ‘propeltidium’.
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- snake-spider-et-al.weebly.com/spiders.html A 2-year long project which seems to have reached some semblance of fruition - cataloguing all the species I've photographed (properly). c. 600 of the 800 odd species on this site are spiders, of which over 100 are Linyphiids! @britishspiders.bsky.social
- @chalkspring.bsky.social @chizz13.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social @kalakemangga.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social thanks a lot for all the help in finding and IDing the spiders on this page!
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- Pales in comparison to @chalkspring.bsky.social's, but here's my Spider Top 10 for 2025! I've stuck to lifers and gone for rewarding over rare. One genus will show up thrice, and I will not apologise! @britishspiders.bsky.social @tylanberry.bsky.social @graemelyons.bsky.social
- What a collection!
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- A Mangrove pit viper (Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus) from Singapore with damage on both eyes. I was looking for a much bigger snake that day, but the day got off to a good start when I saw someone taking videos of something moving on a shrub barely a metre from the edge of the railing!
- A male Cyrtophora cylindroides from Singapore - I was thoroughly confused when I found it in a space web (perhaps I could be excused for fruitlessly scouring Theridiid literature until @kalakemangga.bsky.social corrected me). Quite happy with the shot! @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- What a find! A spider which seems oddly reluctant to be discovered
- What a privilege to have seen both ends of the UK's spider size spectrum - the magnificent Cardinal Spider (Tegenaria parietina) and the diminutive Theonoe minutissima within a few days of each other - a 50x difference in legspan! @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- I am dangerously behind on #arachtober: Day 11 - K for Koppe (Liocranidae) - Asian ground-hunters Day 12 - L for Leucauge (Tetragnathidae) - colourfully patterned orbweavers Day 13 - M for Mastigusa (Cybaeidae) - palps that need no introduction @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- #arachtober A-Z: Day 9: I is for Indoxysticus - a monotypic crab spider genus with a very distinct abdomen pattern Day 10: J is for Jerzego - an oddly named genus of jumping spiders that seem to mimic ants and hate being photographed @britishspiders.bsky.social
- #arachtober A-Z: Day 6 - F for Floronia - the chameleon spider Day 7 - G for Gnaphosa (the best spider genus in the best spider family, no other opinions accepted) Day 8 - H for Heteropoda - giant huntsman spiders (pictured is the delightful H. davidbowie) @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- Don't know if I'll have time for a daily #arachtober find this year, so I'll go with an A-Z of genera instead. A for Amyciaea (Thomisidae), an ant-mimic B for Bijoaraneus (Araneidae) - 'kidney garden spider' C for Corinnomma (Corinnidae), another ant-mimic @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- In the UK, finding a new salticid is a privilege. In Singapore, over 10 species in 5 hours isn’t unusual! Here’s a selection - from left: Epeus sp., Viciria pavesii, Chalcovietnamicus daiqini and the iconic and intelligent spider-hunter Portia fimbriata. @britishspiders.bsky.social
- No. 2 and 1 in the weirdest spider palps contest (UK chapter). Left: Labulla thoracica, right: Mastigusa arietina. Lucky enough to see both within a week, and finally photograph Mastigusa properly (thanks to @chalkspring.bsky.social) @tylanberry.bsky.social @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- New species are great, but it's not often I get to tick off a new family. Psechrus sp. (Psechridae), my 46th wild spider family. Technically added Ctenidae moments earlier with a Bowie sp. but that one didn't want to stay still for photos so I will wait... @britishspiders.bsky.social
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- Definitely top 5 linys on my wish list!
