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a close up view of the head and antennae of a bug

This is the head (prosoma) of an excessively nervous and fast moving creature. It has eight legs, a spider-like body, but enormous chelicerae with vertically placed pincers (like crabs have) and just two 'compound' eyes (aggregated ocels). It is not a true spider but a solifugid (Solifugidae). Found it in broad daylight hunting on arthropods (any) in an open grassy spot in the miombo forest (Lubumbashi, DR Congo). Prey is cut to bits with the massive pincers and body parts are sucked in…

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