Telamonia dimidiata
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The Two-Striped Telamonia (Telamonia dimidiata), is a jumping spider found in various Asian tropical rain forests, in foliage in wooded environments.
Females can reach a body length of 9 to 11 mm, males up to 9 mm.
They occur in Singapore (new record), Indonesia, India, Bhutan.
In 2002 the spider became the subject of an email hoax claiming that it was a fatal spider found lurking under toilet seats in North Florida. This hoax was a rehashing of an older email circulated in 1999 with similar claims, except under the name South American Blush Spider (arachnius gluteus) - literally "butt spider". No such events ever occurred.[1]
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- ^ Urban Legends Reference Pages: Two-Striped Telamonia Spider. Snopes. Retrieved on February 25, 2007.
