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Monomad: Cute 'Leyak'

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I found this little girl in the bushes. She's a Banded Phintella (Phintella vittata), which still belongs to the family Salticidae.

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She was so cute and adorable, crawling nimbly on the green carpet—here, that's colorless, but you can imagine it. A carpet whose edges were torn but wide enough as a base for her to dance on.

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She has black eyes; those eyes were round and sparkling, glaring like the eyes of a Balinese dancer.

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She has large, black jaws like the fangs of a Leyak—the demon queen described in Balinese folklore—and a pair of translucent pedipalps. So even without introducing herself, I knew that she was a female.

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This is another entry I submitted for the daily #monomad challenge.

All of the images here are my own work, taken with a Xiaomi POCO NFC smartphone and an assembled external macro lens.