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Common Big-Jawed Spider Feeding

Family: Tetragnathidae (Big-Jawed Spiders)
Species: Tetragnatha mandibulata (Walckenaer, 1841)

Location: Toa Payoh Town Garden

The victim of this Common Big-Jawed Spider is a male Common Bluetail (I. senegalensis) damselfly.

Nothing is wasted in a meal, as can be seen by this picture which shows the poor damselfly being sucked dry, with head and thorax practically indistinguishable.
Common Big-Jawed Spider, Tetragnatha mandibulata, Spider