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Genus Tutelina

Salticid - Tutelina elegans Gold Spider - Tutelina elegans Sac Salticide spider - Tutelina similis - female Purple Jumper - Tutelina Beata? - Tutelina - male Tutelina female - Tutelina similis - female Tutelina - Tutelina elegans - male Leaf-Beetle Jumping Spider? - Tutelina elegans
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Tutelina
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Numbers
4 species, plus 4 undescribed species (1).
Identification
If you live in Florida, there are a few undescribed species that may make your identification very difficult. However, for much of the continent, the two most easily confused are T. elegans and T. similis. Tips for distinguishing these two species appear below.

Distinguishing adult males: Look at the first pair of legs. T. elegans has a bunch of black hairs that look like a brush. This fieldmark is not present on male T. similis. See examples below:
T. elegans/T. similis


Distinguishing adult females: T. elegans has a white band on the anterior portion of the abdomen; this fieldmark is not present on female T. similis. See examples below:
T. elegans/T. similis
Works Cited
1.Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual
D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.
Contributed by Troy Bartlett on 16 February, 2004 - 1:20pm
Additional contributions by john and jane balaban, Jeff Hollenbeck, cheins, kschnei, ceiseman
Last updated 2 January, 2023 - 5:58am

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