File:Hersilia-2016-06-19-002.jpg

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Hersilia Audouin, 1826 |
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English: Hersilia is a spider genus of the Hersiliidae family. This may Hersilia savignyi. Here it is immobilizing a Cicada by wrapping around. It has lightning speed, giving the victim no chance to escape.
Italiano: Un ragno della familia Hersiliidae mentre cattura un insetto della famiglia dei Cicadidi. Questa famiglia di ragni invece di tessere una tela si mimetizza sul tronco degli alberi e usa un sottile strato di fili come sistema di allarme per avvisarlo delle possibili prede. |
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| Date | 19 June 2016 | ||
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Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publishes it under the following license: This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license. Attribution: © 2016 Jee & Rani Nature Photography (License: CC BY-SA 4.0)
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| Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | © 2016 Jee & Rani Nature Photography. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hersilia-2016-06-19-002.jpg. |
| Camera location | 10° 00′ 10.73″ N, 76° 44′ 00.52″ E | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap |
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This image was selected as picture of the day on Wikimedia Commons for 10 December 2016. It was captioned as follows: Other languages:
Italiano: Un ragno della familia Hersiliidae mentre cattura un'insetto della famiglia dei Cicadidi. Questa famiglia di ragni invece di tessere una tela si mimetizza sul tronco degli alberi e usa un sottile strato di fili come sistema di allarme per avvisarlo delle possibili prede. Magyar: A fatörzspókfélék családjába tartozó Hersilia savignyi egy példánya a foglyul ejtett kabócával Português: Aranha-de-duas-caudas do gênero Hersilia depois de capturar uma cigarra em Kadavoor, Querala, Índia. |
This image was selected as picture of the day on Bengali Wikipedia.
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