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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Tutelina » Tutelina elegans
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Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans - female
Copyright © 2008 Dick Walton

Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans - Female
Acton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 25, 2008
Tutelina sp. - From what Jay has suggested regarding other images, this seems to be an adult female. Is there a way to nail down the species?

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Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans - female Jumping Spider - Tutelina elegans
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Contributed by Dick Walton on 26 July, 2008 - 8:54am
Last updated 18 November, 2008 - 9:34pm

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.

See Jay Barnes comments at:
Tutelina elegans
… Dick Walton, 25 August, 2008 - 9:24am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Spiders.
… john and jane balaban, 16 August, 2008 - 8:27pm login or register to post comments

Very good question
I'm not sure yet if it's possible to distinguish between female similis and elegans by any method other than genitalia examination, because I think I've only photographed elegans so far.

I finally confirmed one of mine a couple nights ago, and have pretty good reason to believe the rest in my collection are the same species. (probably descendants of the female I confirmed, whose young were released on my property two years ago) All looked identical, and I've yet to find a male.

I'll dissect a second one and send the photos to Wayne for a second opinion, along with some very detailed habitus photos of the living females, and ask him what would be different with a similis. Even the epigynum drawings (elegans,similis) can be a little confusing when you only have one species to look at.
… Jay Barnes, 29 July, 2008 - 2:00pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks Jay
A wonderful (if frustrating) puzzle. I'll keep an eye out for associated males.
… Dick Walton, 29 July, 2008 - 2:46pm login or register to post comments

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