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Species Platycryptus undatus

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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 Platycryptus
Species undatus (Platycryptus undatus)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
(De Geer, 1778)
Identification
Male

Palp

Female

Epigynum
Range
Nova Scotia, Ontario and most of the eastern half of the United States as far west as Minnesota, Nebraska and Texas (Barnes 1958)
Print References
Barnes R.D. 1958; North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae; American Museum Novitates, New York 1867: 1-50.

Edwards G.B. 2005b; A review of described Metacyrba, the status of Parkella, and notes on Platycryptus and Balmaceda, with comparison of the genera (Araneae: Salticidae: Marpissinae); Insecta Mundi, 19(4): 193-226