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These were all taken in Kruger, but on 4 different dates, so I’m assuming different individuals.

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ExFmem wrote: ↑Thu Mar 04, 2021 9:00 pm These were all taken in Kruger, but on 4 different dates, so I’m assuming different individuals.

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http://www.waterberg-bioquest.co.za/spi ... pidae.html

Do you think any of these is similar?

Re: Kruger spiders ID -

None match "perfectly", and I don't know how much variation there is between individuals. I got as far as Oxyopes (pretty easy), but no idea of the species - O. hoggi and O. dumonti are closest.

ExFmem wrote: ↑Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:57 pm Re: Kruger spiders ID -

None match "perfectly", and I don't know how much variation there is between individuals. I got as far as Oxyopes (pretty easy), but no idea of the species - O. hoggi and O. dumonti are closest.

Impossible to ID for me, too and males and females are very different.

I noticed however that they are dark around the eye-field which your spiders aren't. Juveniles perhaps?

Large solitary ant, 1.5 cm, Nelspruit:

I agree, it is an ant

Probably smaller than 15 mm


What next?

Genus?
Queen, male, (major, medium, minor) worker?


Solitary ants may be only solitary when foraging

White-backside genus!

Worker!

Worker which one?

For genus - look at the head shape

The most obvious difference between the two or more worker subcastes is in the shape of the head, which is small, narrow and ovate in minors, but greatly enlarged, heart-shaped in majors!

Follow-up question: Why is this the case?