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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 – comprising 13% of spider species. [2]
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]
Most of the time they feed on prey about half their own size, but a range from 2 millimetres (0.079 in) to about 1 centimetre (0.39 in) has been observed. Although found to feed on a wide variety of insects (e.g., flies , bugs and moth caterpillars and adults), they also prey heavily on spiders.
Habronattus viridipes is a species of jumping spider that can be found in the eastern United States (west to Minnesota and Texas) and southern Canada. [1] The species are brownish-black, and have a size of 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in). Its front legs are green. The males attract females by doing a "dance", and showing them their green front legs.
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 ...
Habronattus mexicanus is a species of jumping spider. [3] The species was named in honour of the country of Mexico. [4] The species was originally named Habrocestum mexicanum by George and Elizabeth Peckham in 1896 but was transferred by Frederick Octavius Pickard-Cambridge to Pellenes in 1901 and subsequently to Habronattus by Jerzy Prószyński in 1976.
Phidippus cardinalis is a species of jumping spider.It is commonly called cardinal jumper.It is one of the species of jumping spiders which are mimics of mutillid wasps in the genus Dasymutilla (commonly known as "velvet ants"); several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration to the spiders, and possess a very painful sting.
Portia schultzi is a species of jumping spider which ranges from South Africa in the south to Kenya in the north, and also is found in West Africa and Madagascar.In this species, which is slightly smaller than some other species of the genus Portia, the bodies of females are 5 to 7 mm (0.20 to 0.28 in) long, while those of males are 4 to 6 mm (0.16 to 0.24 in) long.