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Male salticid - Sassacus vitis - male
Copyright © 2015 Ken Schneider

Male salticid - Sassacus vitis - Male
Santa Clara, Bowers Park, Santa Clara County, California, USA
July 17, 2010
Size: 4.5 mm
I beat this adult male salticid from an oak tree. I thought it was probably a male P. aeneola, but the palp suggests it's something more interesting...

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 14 April, 2015 - 11:01pm
Last updated 15 April, 2015 - 10:26am

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.

ID confirmed by Dave Richman, who was kind enough to look at these images. He reiterated that there is variability in the thickness of the embolus in this species.
… Ken Schneider, 15 April, 2015 - 10:26am login or register to post comments

This is
a male Sassacus vitis I believe.

… Chad Heins, 15 April, 2015 - 9:51am login or register to post comments

 
Yeah -
I think you're on the right track, Chad - this is also what Tim Manolis favored. It's a common spider around here, but this individual is very black (as opposed to golden), which confused me, and the embolus is very narrow, but Richman 2008 does talk about intraspecific variation in embolus width...
… Ken Schneider, 15 April, 2015 - 9:56am login or register to post comments

 
Palp does match the drawing here
http://www.jumping-spiders.com/php/tax_drawings.php?id=4295
… John Rosenfeld, 15 April, 2015 - 10:01am login or register to post comments

Reminds me of Zygoballus
but they are mainly eastern I think. Bradley talks about isolated records from Arizona for Z. rufipes so I suppose it could have made it's way to California.

Edit: Palp not right for Z. rufipes.
… John Rosenfeld, 15 April, 2015 - 8:04am login or register to post comments

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