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The jumping spiders, unlike the other families, have faces that are roughly rectangular surfaces perpendicular to their direction of motion. In effect this means that their forward-looking, anterior eyes are on "flat faces", as shown in the photographs. Their eye pattern is the clearest single identifying characteristic.
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 ...
Hogna wolf spider (family Lycosidae) showing the enlarged posterior median eyes typical of the family. The eyes of spiders vary significantly in their structure, arrangement, and function. They usually have eight, each being a simple eye with a single lens rather than multiple units as in the compound eyes of insects. The specific arrangement ...
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 ...
Chalcoscirtus lepidus is a small spider. [9] The male has a brown carapace that is typically 1.06 mm (0.04 in) long and 0.69 mm (0.03 in) wide. It has a pattern of black veins and has a sparse covering of light elongated scales. The eye field is dark brown with the area around the eyes is black. The spider's face, clypeus, is yellow-brown and ...
Langona zimbabwensis is a species of jumping spider in the genus Langona that lives in Zimbabwe. The male was first described by Wanda WesoĊowska and Meg Cumming in 2011. The female has not been identified. The spider is large with a cephalothorax between 2.9 and 3 mm (0.11 and 0.12 in) long and an abdomen between 2.5 and 2.6 mm (0.098 and 0. ...
Cembalea triloris is a small spider with a large eye field. [9] The female has a cephalothorax that is between 2.1 and 2.2 mm (0.083 and 0.087 in) long and 1.6 and 1.8 mm (0.063 and 0.071 in) wide.
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