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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Phidippus » putnami group (Phidippus putnami group) » Phidippus putnami
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Dorsal epigynum - Phidippus putnami - female
Copyright © 2008 Jay Barnes

Dorsal epigynum - Phidippus putnami - Female
N40 03.312 W82 53.780, Columbus, Franklin County, Ohio, USA
October 23, 2007
Testing out some new equipment. :-)

Phidippus putnami; dorsal epigynum. Reference drawings here
14 exposures stacked with Helicon Focus.
Olympus BH2 microscope using Neo SPlan 10x objective and NFK 2.5x photo eyepiece. Illumination a mix of reflected brightfield (fiber optic gooseneck) and transmitted darkfield.
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Contributed by Jay Barnes on 2 March, 2008 - 1:13pm
Last updated 1 January, 2023 - 4:58pm

This is something
Terrific work, It is only equipment stopping me from getting this close, If you don’t mind, what is the lens size you use for your jumping spider photos. I don’t seem to get to far, when they jump on my lens.
Thanks Kathleen
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