Family Salticidae - Jumping Spiders

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Jumping spider - Zygoballus rufipes - male

Magic Change - Phidippus ardens - female

Dimorphic Jumping Spider - Maevia inclemens - male

Large jumping spider - Phidippus pius - female

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

Numbers

Worldwide, the largest family of spiders, with more than 4,400 species described.

Subfamilies by Wayne Madison at Tree of Life

Identification

Anterior median eyes (the pair of eyes in the center front) are comparitively very large and give these spiders excellent color vision and high degree of resolution. The shape of the retinae appears to give the spider telephoto vision (1).

Jumping Spiders of the World

Works Cited

1.	Florida's Fabulous Spiders By Sam Marshall, G. B. Edwards

2.	Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae) By G. B. Edwards, Ph.D.

Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Jeff Hollenbeck
Last updated 27 October, 2007 - 10:39am

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