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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]
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 ]
Colonus puerperus is a species of jumping spider commonly found in the eastern United States. Its range stretches along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas, and north to Kansas, Illinois, and Pennsylvania. [2] It is usually found in grassy areas during the warmer months of the year. [3] Adult females are between 7 and 11 mm (0.3–0.4 in) in ...
Phidippus clarus is found in old fields throughout most of the United States and southern Canada. [2]: 61 [6] It has also been recorded from western Mexico.[2]: 61 It lives among flowers, often sharing habitats with the small to medium-sized crab spider Misumena vatia, [7]: 4 [7]: 278 which waits for prey.
Eris militaris, known commonly as the bronze jumper or bronze lake jumper, is a species of jumping spider, belonging to the Salticidae family. [1] It is found in the United States and Canada within both suburban and rural areas.
Phidippus is a genus in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). [1] Some of the largest jumping spiders inhabit this genus, and many species are characterized by their brilliant, iridescent green chelicerae. Phidippus is distributed almost exclusively in North America, with the exception of two exported species (Phidippus audax and Phidippus ...
A spider survey published in 1999 found P. adumbratus present in coastal sage scrub in the vicinity of San Diego. [8] A spider survey report published in 2022 found individuals in Baja California's Central Desert ecoregion in Sierra Blanca, Ensenada Municipality, Mesa Escondido and San Antonio de Las Minas on the Baja California peninsula. [5]
The spider's diet typically includes small insects such as aphids and young caterpillars. [15] [26] They have also been known to eat mosquitoes and numerous kinds of small spiders. [13] [27] Mud dauber wasps, which capture and paralyze spiders as a source of food for their larvae, have been shown to prey on both male and female Z. sexpunctatus ...