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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Phidippus » audax group (Phidippus audax group) » Bold Jumper (Phidippus audax)
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jumper - Phidippus audax
Copyright © 2018 WanderingMogwai

jumper - Phidippus audax
montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
August 24, 2018
Size: ~1cm
Found on a milkweed plant. In the colony of milkweed there seemed to be quite a number of these. Each with their own milkweed plant. I'm thinking it wasn't a Bold Jumper because there was no iridescence.
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Contributed by WanderingMogwai on 26 August, 2018 - 9:04pm
Last updated 19 October, 2018 - 7:47am

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… Chad Heins, 19 October, 2018 - 7:47am login or register to post comments

It
is audax.
The iridescent scales are along the sides, down the center, and side to side, encompassing the pairs of flat black patches.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 27 August, 2018 - 2:14am login or register to post comments

 
thx
ok. cool. thx :)
… WanderingMogwai, 3 September, 2018 - 6:31pm login or register to post comments

 
No
problem.
I should have mentioned the most obvious example is between the white basal band (behind head) and white central spot. The iridescent scales can be seen around the pair of flat black patches.
Here’s an example similar to audax where the lighting made the iridescence a little easier to see:
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 3 September, 2018 - 8:53pm login or register to post comments

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