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\nThis tiny male daring an approach is no more than 6 to 8 mm in length!<\/strong>
\nLe petit m\u00e2le qui tente une approche ne fait 6\/8 mm!<\/p>\n
\nTo get the recto side, I had to coax her a bit!<\/strong><\/p>\n
This spider has a wide distribution encompassing the whole of Africa and stretching to southern Europe and into Asia.<\/p>\n
Without the legs, it reaches 25 to 30 mm in length. The female’s characteristic lobes distinguish her from other spiders of the araneidae family.<\/p>\n
The web is loose and the threads are very thin. I found this specimen in the scrublands of north-eastern Spain, near a huge water dam.<\/p>\n
As all argiope spiders it remains head down, underparts toward the sun: the black and yellow checkerboard conceals her perfectly with its scrubland environment.<\/p>\n
L’Argiope lob\u00e9e ou Argiope soyeuse<\/p>\n
Sa distribution s’\u00e9tend dans toute l’Afrique et au sud de l’Europe. Sans les pattes, cette grande araign\u00e9e fait 20 \u00e0 25 mm de long. Chez la femelle, les lobes caract\u00e9ristiques de l’abdomen la distinguent des autres araign\u00e9es de la famille des araneid\u00e9s.<\/p>\n
Sa toile est l\u00e2che et les fils tr\u00e8s fins. J’ai trouv\u00e9 ce sp\u00e9cimen dans un terrain ouvert genre garrigue en amont du grand r\u00e9servoir d’eau de Baldellou en Catalogne, au nord de L\u00e9rida.<\/p>\n
Comme toutes les argiopes, elle se tient la t\u00eate en bas et pr\u00e9f\u00e8re pr\u00e9senter ses dessous au soleil: le damier jaune et noir la confond parfaitement avec son environnement de garrigue.<\/p>\n
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\nThis tiny male daring an approach is no more than 6 to 8 mm in length!<\/strong>
\nLe petit m\u00e2le qui tente une approche ne fait 6\/8 mm!<\/p>\n
\nTo get the recto side, I had to coax her a bit!<\/strong><\/p>\n