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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynes » Lynx Spiders (Oxyopidae) » Oxyopes » Striped Lynx  (Oxyopes salticus)
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Lynx (?) Spider - Oxyopes salticus - male
Copyright © 2005 Phillip Reedy

Lynx (?) Spider - Oxyopes salticus - Male
Marion, Smyth County, Virginia, USA
July 2, 2005
Size: .5 inches
Here is a dorsal view as close as I could get with my camera.

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Lynx (?) Spider - Oxyopes salticus - male Lynx (?) Spider - Oxyopes salticus - male
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Contributed by Phillip Reedy on 14 July, 2005 - 9:12pm
Last updated 25 April, 2006 - 8:11pm

yes
I'm fairly certain this is a male Lynx spider.
… Lynette Schimming, 15 July, 2005 - 6:50am login or register to post comments

 
I agree.
Male because of those swollen pedipalps. Lynx spider because of the eye arrangement and those incredibly spiny legs. Very nice shot exhibiting all those characteristics needed for ID.
… Eric R. Eaton, 15 July, 2005 - 12:26pm login or register to post comments

 
What type of Lynx?
It doesn't look like a Oxyopes scalaris, do you know which it might be?
… Phillip Reedy, 19 July, 2005 - 2:36pm login or register to post comments

 
It looks like
O. salticus
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 6 August, 2005 - 10:54pm login or register to post comments

 
Nope
I don't.
… Lynette Schimming, 23 July, 2005 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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