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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 apacheanus
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Red & Black Spider dragging Jumping Spider - Phidippus apacheanus
Copyright © 2017 Margy Stewart

Red & Black Spider dragging Jumping Spider - Phidippus apacheanus
Junction City, 15 mi. SE, Tall Grass Prairie/Flint Hills/Geary County, Kansas, USA
October 5, 2017
Size: ca. 2" long
What a harlequin! What are the bright-aqua-colored appendages? Are those pedipalps? The deceased jumping spider also has similarly colored appendages. Is that color common or just this time of year? I never noticed it before! Thank you so much for your help.

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Contributed by Margy Stewart on 6 October, 2017 - 7:50pm
Last updated 8 October, 2017 - 5:16pm

Predator becomes Prey
The larger Phidippus is probably P. cardinalis rather than P. apacheanus. The smaller Phidippus is P. audax, normally a predator, not the prey. The green iridescent appendages are the chelicerae, not pedipalps. The pedipalps are just laterally adjacent to the chelicerae. They look like very short legs.
… Steven Schafersman, 30 October, 2020 - 3:14pm login or register to post comments

 
P. apacheanus
Steven, this girl is literally a textbook example of Phidippus apacheanus. P. cardinalis females look quite different from this species.
… Don Cadle, 21 June, 2022 - 8:13pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 8 October, 2017 - 5:16pm login or register to post comments

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