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long-legged jumping spider - Hentzia mitrata - male
Copyright © 2005 Joshua Stuart Rose

long-legged jumping spider - Hentzia mitrata - Male
Durham, Durham County, North Carolina, USA
This spider's enormously long legs caught my eye as it crawled up the support frame for the hammock in our front yard. Not long after that (this was in summer 2004), I found another one in a tent in our backyard:
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presumably the same species, if not same individual.
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Contributed by Joshua Stuart Rose on 30 July, 2005 - 10:32pm
Last updated 12 February, 2008 - 3:41pm

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your images. I hope you don't mind, but also made links for simple one click viewing.
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