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Species Phidippus adumbratus

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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 Phidippus
No Taxon (insignarius group)
Species adumbratus (Phidippus adumbratus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
adumbratus Latin 'vaguely outlined'(1) (the epithet commonly used in zoology to refer to hazy dark pattern)
Described by W.J. Gertsch in 1934(2)
Identification
Male/Female
Range
This species is only known from California. (3)
Works Cited
1.Composition of scientific words
Brown R.W. 1956. Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, DC. 882 pp.
2.Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)
G. B. Edwards, Ph.D. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
3.Salticidae of North America, including Mexico
Richman, David B., Bruce Cutler, & David E. Hill. 2012. Peckhamia, 95.3.