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Genus Oxyopes

Oxyopidae - Oxyopes scalaris - female Lynx Spider - Oxyopes salticus Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris - male Male Lynx Spider Overhead - Oxyopes occidens - male Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris oxyopid - Oxyopes scalaris - male ID Please - Oxyopes scalaris Western Lynx Spider - Oxyopes scalaris
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Oxyopidae (Lynx Spiders)
Genus Oxyopes
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Here
Southwest
Current
Explanation of Names
Oxyopes: Greek, means having sharp eyes.
Numbers
Aceistus Group: O. acleistus, aglossus, aureus, and occidens.
Apollo Group: O. apollo, artemis, cougar, felinus, lynx, pardus, and tridens.
Others: O. salticus, scalaris, and panther (panther-apollo group species?).
Life Cycle
The molting process of Oxyopes
See Also
Peucetia
Print References
The Lynx Spiders Of North America, North Of Mexico (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
By Allen R. Brady
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 131, No. 13 Cambridge, Mass. September 30, 1964

Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
By D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing, and V. Roth (eds)
American Arachnological Society, 2005

The Spider Book by John Henry Comstock
Fifth printing 1980
ISBN 0-8014-0084-8

How to Know the Spiders by B. J. Kaston
Third Edition 1978
ISBN: 0697048985

Common Spiders Of The United States by James H. Emerton 1961
ISBN 486-20223-2

The Spiders Of The United States by Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, MD
Occasional Papers Of The Boston Society Of Natural History II 1875

Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods Vol. 11 2004
Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)
By G. B. Edwards, Ph.D.
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Internet References
Apollo Species Group
Lynx images
Spiders of Vietnam
Tab. 32
Contributed by Devin Carroll on 18 April, 2005 - 8:02pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Jeff Hollenbeck
Last updated 16 October, 2006 - 1:38pm

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