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Species Sassacus papenhoei

Jumping Spider with fly - Sassacus papenhoei Sassacus papenhoei? - Sassacus papenhoei Sassacus? NM - Sassacus papenhoei Salticidae -? - Sassacus papenhoei Salticidae with fly - Sassacus papenhoei Spider 3mm - Sassacus papenhoei Cute little spider  - Sassacus papenhoei Leaf-beetle Jumping Spider - Sassacus papenhoei
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Sassacus
Species papenhoei (Sassacus papenhoei)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895
Identification
Palp


Generally covered in "metallic green and pink or coppery scales ... abdomen usually green or blue".(Richman, 2008)
Range
British Columbia, most of the U.S. and Mexico but absent from the Dakotas and the northeast.(1)
Habitat
Desert brush, also alfalfa and cotton, upland prairie, meadow (Richman, 2008).
Season
Often abundant in summer (Richman, 2008).
Print References
Levi, H.W. (1954) New and rare spiders from Wisconsin and adjacent states. Am. Mus. Novit. 1501: 1-41.
Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. (1895) Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2: 159-183.
Richman, D.B. (2008) Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America. J. Arachnol. 36: 26-48.
Works Cited
1.Salticidae of North America, including Mexico
Richman, David B., Bruce Cutler, & David E. Hill. 2012. Peckhamia, 95.3.