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The magnolia green jumper is small for a jumping spider, with adult females measuring 7-8mm and adult males 5-6mm. [3] Most specimens appear as a pale, partially translucent green (from which they derive a part of their taxonomic and common names) with a small fringe of scales which may appear red, orange, yellow or white on the crown of the head, framing the eyes. [3]
Phidippus octopunctatus is a jumping spider that occurs in the United States and Mexico, mostly in the Great Basin Desert. It is among the largest jumping spiders found in North America, approaching 25 millimetres (0.98 in) in body length. They are gray to brownish-gray in color.
Phidippus otiosus is a species of jumping spider that is found in southeastern North America. It is primarily a tree-living species. [1] Females reach a body length of about 16 mm. Its iridescent chelicerae can range in color from purple to green.
Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019 [update] , this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species , [ 1 ] making it the largest family of spiders – comprising 13% of spider species. [ 2 ]
While the male is strikingly red on top, with a black band in the frontal eye region and sometimes with white setae on the forelegs, the female is of a rather inconspicuous brown color. It is one of the species of jumping spiders which are mimics of mutillid wasps (commonly known as "velvet ants"); several species of these wasps are similar in ...
Maevia intermedia is one of eight species of Salticidae, or jumping spider, in the genus Maevia, and is native to North America. [1] This species was originally reported by American Zoologist Robert D. Barnes in 1955 as a needed distinguishment between the similar-looking Maevia species, especially those found in the Americas.
Jumping spider. What they look like: There are more than 300 species of these, and they all look a little different. “Their colors can vary from solid black with distinctive markings, to striped ...
Zygoballus sexpunctatus is a species of jumping spider which occurs in the southeastern United States where it can be found in a variety of grassy habitats. Adult spiders measure between 3 and 4.5 mm in length. The cephalothorax and abdomen are bronze to black in color, with reddish brown