I stopped for a coffee in Torino, Italy, and noticed this pretty arachnid lady in the corner. She kindly agreed to visit my travel studio. Meet Holocnemus pluchei from family #pholcidae of daddy long-leg spiders. #spidermacro

Pachygnatha listeri male spider. Its substantial jaws match the genus name: “pachys”=thick and “gnathos”=jaw. #spidermacro #tetragnathidae

Metellina mengei, the ”spring season weaver of or-webs with a hole in the middle”. This male spider has a delightfully wide interpretation of spring, as I found it in October. #spidermacro #tetragnathidae

Cute little zebra jumper, probably Salticus cingulatus. #spidermacro #salticidae

Introducing the unassuming species Anguliphantes angulipalpis. Male in the first photo, female in the second. These are small spiders, 2.5mm in length, living in leaf litter. They hunt their food hanging under small horizontal webs. #spidermacro #linyphiidae

This Monday goes to the forest floor dweller Macrargus rufus. I found this 4mm long beast by sifting leaf litter. This species is abundant all over Finland. The ID process was arduous until I noticed the crooked “glass spear” in the pedipalp. #linyphiidae #spider

Incestophantes crucifer, a small sheet-web weaver I caught with a bark trap. #linyphiidae #spidermacro

Trochosa terricola, the notorious Earth Bear Spider. #lycosidae #spidermacro

This Monday we go with a classic. Meet Araneus diadematus, the quintessential orb-weaver. #spidermacro #araneidae

Salticus cingulatus jumping spider. Actually, the Latin verb “saltare” means both “to jump” and “to dance”. So is this a dancing spider, after all? 💃 #salticidae #spidermacro

Macrargus boreus spider I met the day before yesterday. This almost 3mm long male lived under a huge spruce tree at lakeside in Central Finland. I caught him by sifting leaf litter. #spidermacro #linyphiidae

Clubiona subsultans, a sac spider that loves coniferous trees. #spidermacro #clubionidae

Robertus arundineti, a tiny cobweb weaver living in swamps. #spidermacro #theridiidae

Running crab spider Philodromus cespitum. #spidermacro #philodromidae

Zora spinimana male spider. #spidermacro #miturgidae

A baby jumping spider, of the kind Pseudeuophrys erratica. #salticidae

Meet the Ruby Queen of leaf litter: Gonatium rubellum. I found this beauty by sifting leaf litter in the recreation island Seurasaari in Helsinki, Finland. #linyphiidae #spidermacro

Microneta viaria dwarf spider from Central Finland. #spidermacro #linyphiidae

Agyneta saxatilis dwarf spider from Helsinki, Finland. This tiny male is my first arachnid observation with conservation category Data Deficient (DD). I’m happy to offer one more data point for A. saxatilis studies! #spidermacro #linyphiidae

Jumping spider (Noegus sp.) from Rio de Janeiro. I met this tiny bugger in the botanical gardens in 2017. #salticidae #spidermacro