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  2. Jumping spider - Wikipedia

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    Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, [1] making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. [2] Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among arthropods and use it in courtship, hunting, and ...

  3. Spider vision - Wikipedia

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    Most spiders' eyes can detect little more than brightness and motion, so vision plays only a minor role in behaviour. However some species, such as jumping spiders, wolf spiders, and deinopids, have more developed eyes which they use in hunting and courtship. [2]

  4. Phidippus audax - Wikipedia

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    Phidippus audax are commonly referred to as "bold jumping spiders" or "bold jumpers". [8] The species name, audax, is a Latin adjective meaning "audacious" or "bold". [8] This name was first used to describe the species by French arachnologist Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, who described the spider as being, "very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it". [9]

  5. Portia fimbriata - Wikipedia

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    Jumping spiders have eight eyes, the two large ones in the center-and-front position (the anterior-median eyes, also called "principal eyes" [14]: 51 ) housed in tubes in the cephalothorax and providing acute vision. The other six are secondary eyes, positioned along the sides of the carapace and acting mainly as movement detectors.

  6. Phaeacius - Wikipedia

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    Eye pattern of jumping spiders on "squared-off" cephalothorax. Jumping spiders have eight eyes, the two large ones in the centre-and-front position (the anterior-median eyes, also called "principal eyes" [6]: 51 ) providing acute vision and housed in tubes in the head. The other six are secondary eyes, positioned along the sides of the carapace ...

  7. The 10 Most Common House Spiders to Look Out For, According ...

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    Also, brown recluse spiders have six eyes, instead of the eight that many other spiders have. ... Jumping spider. What they look like: There are more than 300 species of these, and they all look a ...

  8. Spider anatomy - Wikipedia

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    Several families of hunting spiders, such as jumping spiders and wolf spiders, have fair to excellent vision. The main pair of eyes in jumping spiders even sees in color. [9] Net-casting spiders of genus Deinopis have their posterior median eyes enlarged into large forward-facing compound lenses. These eyes have a wide field of view and are ...

  9. Portia labiata - Wikipedia

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    Jumping spiders have eight eyes, the two large ones in the center-and-front position (the anterior-median eyes, also called "principal eyes" [9]: 51 ) housed in tubes in the head and providing acute vision. The other six are secondary eyes, positioned along the sides of the carapace and acting mainly as movement detectors.