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Family Salticidae - Jumping Spiders

Menemerus bivittatus - female Phidippus regius - female Jumping Spider - Pelegrina proterva Phidippus regius - female Jumping Spider with Red Butt - Habronattus decorus - male Pelegrina Male - Pelegrina galathea Jumping Spider Magnolia Spider - Lyssomanes viridis
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 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 (1). 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 (2)
Internet References
Tree of Life
Emporia Kansas
Univ Kentucky
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 cotinis, Hannah Nendick-Mason, john and jane balaban, Jeff Hollenbeck
Last updated 25 May, 2008 - 7:22am

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