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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Phidippus » purpuratus group (Phidippus purpuratus group) » Phidippus borealis

Species Phidippus borealis

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Identification · Range · Food · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited
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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 Phidippus
No Taxon (purpuratus group)
Species borealis (Phidippus borealis)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Explanation of Names
Latin for "northern"
Identification
Male/Female

Epigynum (ventral)
Range
This is a boreal species with records from Newfoundland west to Alaska south to Minnesota/Michigan in the Midwest but as far south as Colorado and Utah in the mountainous west. (1)
Food
Food
Print References
Print References
Internet References
Internet References
Works Cited
1.Salticidae of North America, including Mexico
Richman, David B., Bruce Cutler, & David E. Hill. 2012. Peckhamia, 95.3.
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 4 December, 2005 - 6:50pm
Additional contributions by cheins, Chuck Entz, jsloan
Last updated 31 December, 2022 - 4:54pm

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