Figure 9. Derbid (Homoptera: Fulgoroidea: Derbidae: Otiocerinae: Rhotanini: Rhotana) planthoppers that appear to mimic salticid spiders. 1, Rhotana sp. that appears to mimic a salticid when viewed from either side, Singapore. Photo by Melvyn Yeo, used with permission. 2, A different Rhotana sp. that extends and rears its wings to look like a salticid from the front, from the Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia. Photographed on a wall at night by Marcus Ng, 24 JUL 2013, used with permission. 3, A third Rhotana sp. from Simao, Yunnan, China. Photo by John Horstman/itchydogimages, used with permission. When this photo was posted it was compared to Telamonia dimidiata. 4, Adult female Telamonia dimidiata from Karnataka for comparison. Photo by Abhijith APC, 1 OCT 2018. When this photo was taken a sepsid fly (left, center) was entering the nest of this spider. T. dimidiata is widely distributed throughout the range of these derbid planthoppers in south and southeast Asia.

Published as part of Hill, David E., C., Abhijith A. P. & Burini, João P., 2019, Do jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) draw their own portraits?, pp. 1-14 in Peckhamia 179 (1) on page 11, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7169681