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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes  » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae)

Family Salticidae - Jumping Spiders

Classification · Numbers · Identification · See Also · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
Bold Jumping Spider with Prey - Phidippus audax Green-legged Jumper - Habronattus viridipes - male Do I know you? Thiodina hespera, right? - Thiodina hespera BG791 C7180 - Phidippus - female Jumping spider - Eris floridana - female Small jumper on coyote gourd - Phidippus Bronze Jumper - Eris militaris - male jumping spider
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

More than 315 species in 63 genera in our region (1).
Identification
Anterior median eyes (the pair of eyes in the center front) are comparatively 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 (2). See diagram of a typical arrangement of eyes in this family:
See Also
Fruit Flies--some are mimics of Salticids
Print References
G. B. Edwards (3)
Internet References
www.rkwalton.com - A detailed guide to Identifying jumping spiders using field markings.
Tree of Life
The Peckham Society - a great site with images, links to other web sites, pdf files of many relevant papers and home to the journal Peckhamia.
Jumping Spiders of the World
Emporia Kansas
Univ Kentucky
Revision of the Attidae of North America Peckham & Peckham 1909, a new digital searchable version.
Works Cited
1.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
By D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds)
2.Florida's Fabulous Spiders
By Sam Marshall, G. B. Edwards
3.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 cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Lynette, Jeff Hollenbeck, kschnei
Last updated 11 May, 2012 - 9:01am

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