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Species Sassacus papenhoei

Sassacus papenhoei? - Sassacus papenhoei

jumping spider (?) mini, purple & turquoise - Sassacus papenhoei

Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham - Sassacus papenhoei

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 Sassacus

Species papenhoei (Sassacus papenhoei)

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

See the World Spider Catalog.

Explanation of Names

Sassacus papenhoei Peckham & Peckham, 1895

Identification

Palp

Generally covered in "metallic green and pink or coppery scales ... abdomen usually green or blue".(Richman, 2008)

Range

British Columbia, most of the U.S. and Mexico but absent from the Dakotas and the northeast.(1)

Habitat

Desert brush, also alfalfa and cotton, upland prairie, meadow (Richman, 2008).

Season

Often abundant in summer (Richman, 2008).

Print References

Levi, H.W. (1954) New and rare spiders from Wisconsin and adjacent states. Am. Mus. Novit. 1501: 1-41.

Peckham, G.W. & Peckham, E.G. (1895) Spiders of the Homalattus group of the family Attidae. Occasional Papers of the Natural History Society of Wisconsin 2: 159-183.

Richman, D.B. (2008) Revision of the jumping spider genus Sassacus (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantinae) in North America. J. Arachnol. 36: 26-48.

Works Cited

1.	Salticidae of North America, including Mexico Richman, David B., Bruce Cutler, & David E. Hill. 2012. Peckhamia, 95.3.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 3 July, 2005 - 4:39pm
Additional contributions by cheins, Mike Quinn, pfeiffer
Last updated 1 January, 2023 - 6:50pm

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