Araneidae, Cyrtophora citricola

Female

Male

Egg sacs and spider-lings

Araneidae, Verrucosa arenata

Female

Araneidae, Larinia minor

Female

Araneidae, Gasteracantha cancriformis

Araneidae
Subfamily: Gasteracanthinae
Tribe: Gasteracanthini

This spiny orb weaver have differents morphs,

as you can see in the pictures.

It's very common in all regions, as in other

Caribbean countries.

The male is only 2mm and it's very difficult to find.

Females

Pisauridae, Fishing spiders

Possibly Dolomedes triton (dark form)

 or Dolomedes fuscus, cuban endemic.

Female - Los Haitises

Thaumasia velox - Female with eggsac - Los Haitises

Sparassidae, Pseudosparianthis sp.

Sparassidae

Pseudosparianthis sp 1

Female

Pseudosparianthis sp 2

Female

Male

Pseudosparianthis sp 3

Male (pedipalps lost)

Araneidae, Micrathena militaris

Araneidae

Subfamily: Micratheninae

Micrathena militaris (Fabricius, 1775) Greater Antilles

Araneidae, Eriophora ravilla

Eriophora ravilla in different morphs

    

Juvenile

 

Male

Ctenidae, Ctenus sp.

Cyrtaucheniidae, Bolostromus sp.

Female

Male

Ctenidae - Ctenus sp.

Ctenidae

This is another beautiful spider from D.R.

From the family Ctenidae. I've found this one

on the mountains at 400 mt in Peravia Region, South-West.

Male:

Trechaleidae, Cupiennius vodou

This beautiful spider can be found in many regions,

between the foliage in deep vegetation, mostly where

the humidity is high.

Male

Sicariidae, Loxosceles taino

This spider like others in the same genus are

very dangerous to humans. They have a Citotoxic venom

that causes necrosis, fever, nausea, vomiting and rashes.

They occur in the south-west. The size is about 7/11 mm.

Female

Male

Theridiidae, Latrodectus geometricus

Best known as Brown Widow.

Their venom is highly toxic, more than Black Widow but it's very

difficult for them to come in contact with humans, even if they live into

houses, gardens, beaches and grass where people often walk

barefoot. The size it's about 11 mm for the females and 5 mm for

the males. They can be found everywhere and their color varies

from clear brown to black.

In this picture you can see both female and male, the color

of the female it's very rare, almost white with orange spots.

Theraphosidae, Cyrtopholis Sp. undescribed.

Theraphosidae

Subfamily: Theraphosinae

This is a new species that I found in 2009.

The female have a body lenght of 52mm and the male 26mm.

The colors are truly spectacular, deep brown 

with orange legs. Some times the femurs are dark blue.

Female

    

Immature

Male

    

Theraphosidae, Holothele sp. Blue

Family: Theraphosidae

Subfamily: Ischnocolinae

This is one of my favorite migalomorph spider.

The colour is silvery blue and it turns grey before the molt,

Males sometimes are golden colored.

They are widespread across the island of Hispaniola.

They live under stones in burrows lined with silk.

Females:

After molt...

Male

    

Araneidae, Trichonephila clavipes

This is a gorgeous spider widespread over

the Island, from the coasts to the mountains.

The females reach 35mm, the males only 7mm.

Females sometimes makes very big webs with

over than 1mt in diameter. On their webs

there are some parasites, other spiders

from the genus Argyrodes (fam. Theridiidae)

they are very small and feed with nephilas

without get detected on the web, because of

their extremely slow motion. One Argyrodes

it's visible in the first picture.

During copulation...

Immature Female

Male