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Jumping Spider - Phidippus clarus - male
Copyright © 2009 Phil Huntley-Franck

Jumping Spider - Phidippus clarus - Male
Elkton, Douglas County, Oregon, USA
June 8, 2009
Size: approx 4mm
late instar Phidippus clarus?

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Contributed by Phil Huntley-Franck on 16 August, 2009 - 5:27pm
Last updated 31 August, 2009 - 9:53pm

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.
… Jay Barnes, 31 August, 2009 - 6:35am login or register to post comments

I think clarus is correct
but I'm not sure if it's a female as you currently have it marked. Did you get any other shots of the palps.
… Jay Barnes, 30 August, 2009 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

 
more images -
I have a total of 4 images. I've added 100% crops of each. If my supposition about gender is wrong, I'll change it. I think the last image (peering over the bee box edge) might show male palps.

Thanks for the ID, Jay.

:-P)
… Phil Huntley-Franck, 30 August, 2009 - 9:46pm login or register to post comments

 
Suspicions confirmed...
Cool, this would be a subadult male then, which means he will be an adult after his next molt. I'll frass a few, move the rest, and let you take care of the sex-change operations.

BTW, thin palps wouldn't necessarily make it a female, it would just mean that we could rule out 'adult male' and 'subadult male'. For the younger instars the palps are usually identical between genders.
… Jay Barnes, 31 August, 2009 - 6:34am login or register to post comments

 
Thanks, Jay
Always nice when you teach me something new . . . and of course, hoping I can remember it.

:-P)
… Phil Huntley-Franck, 31 August, 2009 - 9:56pm login or register to post comments

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