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Species Oxyopes salticus - Striped Lynx

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Oxyopidae (Lynx Spiders)
Genus Oxyopes
Species salticus (Striped Lynx )
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845.
O. astutus Hentz 1845, O. gracilis Keyserling 1877. (Brady, 1964)
Size
BL - Adult females: ~6mm
Adult males: ~5mm
Range
Throughout the United States.
Habitat
Grasses and leafy vegetation; grassy, weedy fields (Brady, 1964).
Print References
The Lynx Spiders Of North America, North Of Mexico (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
By Allen R. Brady
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 131, No. 13 Cambridge, Mass. September 30, 1964
Internet References
Food Imprinting
Gut Analysis
Prey
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 25 April, 2006 - 8:11pm
Additional contributions by kschnei
Last updated 14 September, 2008 - 3:19pm

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