{"id":2772,"date":"2020-10-06T09:41:59","date_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=2772"},"modified":"2020-10-06T09:41:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-05T22:41:59","slug":"in-the-box-ironbark-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/10\/06\/in-the-box-ironbark-3\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Box\/Ironbark #3."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The males of Maratus plumosus are tiny, the one photographed was about 3.5 mm nose to tail. Features used when displaying to a female are its lateral flaps, blue leg femora, and bicoloured pedipalps, these are seen in the following greatly enlarged images.<\/p>\n<p>Frontal view showing the pedipalps.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar1b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"544\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rear view showing the lateral flaps folded.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/rear.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"366\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Blue femur is visible here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar5b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here it is displaying with raised leg and lateral flap.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar2b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"460\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar3b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"516\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/maratus\/mar4b.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"524\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Most images will enlarge.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The males of Maratus plumosus are tiny, the one photographed was about 3.5 mm nose to tail. Features used when displaying to a female are its lateral flaps, blue leg femora, and bicoloured pedipalps, these are seen in the following greatly enlarged images. Frontal view showing the pedipalps. Rear view showing the lateral flaps folded. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2020\/10\/06\/in-the-box-ironbark-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">In the Box\/Ironbark #3.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}