it has the lines on the ventral femurs. I don't think Western Lynx Spider (Oxyopes scalaris) has those lines. In West Virginia we could have O. aglossus, (maybe O. apollo), O. salticus & O. scalaris. I went through all the dorsal drawings on the PDF and couldn't find a match.

it seemed that scalaris could have thick brown fuzzy lines on the femurs, but not straight black thin lines. There are some clear scalaris in the guide with those brown thick lines like this one. While we think this could very well be scalaris, we're just not confident enough yet to say it is not aglossus. We have to get a better image in our minds of what the male aglossus would look like. Once we get some sure aglossus, we should be able to decide on this one.

the key to males says "with distinct black lines on ventral surfaces of femora I & II - Salticus, acleistus & aglossus. Those lines look pretty distinct to me. Perhaps we have some problems with our male images on the O. scalaris page? The O. scalaris with ventral lines I found are


can't see lines on this one but I'd guess it's the same as 21873


The odd thing is that these all look alike to me. They also don't look like the other O. scalaris. Compare with this image from Utah which could only be O. scalaris based on range



At this point I can't really say if they are aglossus. If they are that would be a range extension for those images from Mass.

This is salticus with distinct narrow black lines and the face mark you mentioned earlier:

While Tom's looks more to me like this scalaris from Illinois with wide diffuse brown stripes:

I'd say that makes Tom's a scalaris with significant certainty. See what you think. If we can fix Tom's, we can go on from there.

in the meantime I'm adding


to my group of similar looking ones above.