the jumping spider, banded phintella

Ever seen such a small, iridescent, jumping spider? Easy to miss among the bushes, but once you find it, you will get stuck with its beauty! 

The banded phintella, phintella vittata, belongs to the family of jumping spiders (salticidae).

phintella vittata, a jumping spider

Jumping spiders are called so because they jump from one place to another, after attaching a silk filament to where they stand. Unlike other spiders, these are said to be inquisitive and may even jump on to your hands if you approach them 🙂 Don’t worry, they are too tiny to harm you in any way!

Date: 11 Aug 2007
Location: @ home, Kottayam, Kerala, India
Camera: Nikon D80 + Tamron SP AF90mm f/2.8 Di Macro Lens

29 Responses

  1. Indrani says:

    Nature’s amazing creations!
    Very beautifully captured.

  2. apoorva says:

    Hi Rock sea!

    i saw ur comment on one of my posts sometime back. Today i thought of writing to u. These collection of pics of door knobs, is it ur hobby or u r in such a profession?

    spider pics shows u have an eye for detail.

    there is a lot on ur blog to read. I shall come back.

    U hv created a nice and interesting look for ur blog.

    keep posting…. take care.

    apoorva.

    • rocksea says:

      Hey apoorva, am happy for the detailed, encouraging comments from you 🙂 The door knobs and other theme photographs, I puruse as an interest. I am happy that you liked them. I tried to visit your blog once again, but I guess it is accessible only for subscribers?

  3. Salticids, I am coming to think, are the Poodles, Pugs and Apsos of the spider world!

    Very cute and goodlooking spiders they are! I wonder if there is a guide to common salticid spiders of India!

  4. rocksea says:

    simply poet, thanks for the appreciation and the invitation.

    deeps, 🙂

  5. Spiders again! I’m leaving… —–>

    I can see a small one on its web up there in the ceiling. Hope its not a jumping spider … hehehee 🙂

  6. Deeps says:

    its so tiny…its beautiful!!

  7. kanak says:

    I’ve seen jumping spiders but never one as pretty as this one. I’ll be on the look out now. All the spiders here vary between shades of grey, buff, and black/white, or brown.

  8. wow..you have an awesome collection of poems do check out
    http://www.simplypoet.com,a place where poets/writers interact,comment,critique and learn from each other..it would provide a larger audience to your blog!!

  9. Elaine- says:

    if one jumped on my hand i would scream EEEEEEEEK!!! and shake and run lolol neat shot tho, really shows his colors!!! and no my picture was not taken long ago, it’s a new pic, but i’ve been trying to give sort of 70’s processing alot lately, didn’t know i had succeeded 🙂 thanks!

  10. Andy says:

    He seems so small compared to the world around him! Very colorful spider too!

  11. So intricately created and designed aren’t they. and so many of these and other tiny creatures…

    I Salute thee, creator of things:)

  12. Abhilash says:

    Nice to hear they will not harm us.

    I have seen many spiders but never noticed them so close. This looks nice until it converts me to spiderman… 🙂

    Your snap is good…

  13. Solilo says:

    The capture is just awesome!

    BTW I voted for you guys on Indiblogger original poems.

  14. Hmmmmm … the brown tiny spiders we see in our houses also jumps right ? so are they also of same kind ?

  15. Mridula says:

    Such a small creature and so colorful!

  16. Mohan says:

    Wow.. that is a great capture! So colorful amidst the flashy bright green!

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