Species Tutelina elegans

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · See Also · Works Cited

jumping spider (Tutelina?) - Tutelina elegans

Tutelina Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans - male

Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans - female

Tutelina elegans IV - Tutelina elegans - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes )

Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

Subfamily Dendryphantinae

Genus Tutelina

Species elegans (Tutelina elegans)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

Icius elegans

See Also

Tutelina similis is very similar, but adult male elegans has a black tuft of hairs on tibia I, and adult female elegans has a white basal band around the abdomen.(1) In my experience with female elegans, identifiable marks begin to show at the antepenultimate instar. Earlier instars of either species, which appear gray in color, probably cannot be identified beyond genus. (jb)

Works Cited

1.	Spiders Of Connecticut By Benjamin Julian Kaston

Contributed by Jay Barnes on 12 August, 2008 - 1:30am
Additional contributions by ceiseman
Last updated 8 July, 2011 - 7:52am

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