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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Marpissa

Genus Marpissa

Classification · Pronunciation · Numbers · Identification · Range · Remarks · Internet References · Works Cited

Unknown Jumping Spider - Marpissa pikei - female

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 Marpissa

Pronunciation

mahr-PISS-uh

Numbers

10 species in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico)(1).

Identification

(Not all species and genders are shown here.)

Marpissa bina (male, female, female variety):

(image not from BugGuide; click to see source)

Marpissa formosa (male, female):

Marpissa grata (male):

Marpissa lineata (male, female):

Marpissa pikei (male, female):

Marpissa robusta (male):

Range

(Species that can be found in Canada are in bold.)

M. bina: southeastern states from Florida north to at least Beaufort, North Carolina.(2)

M. bryantae: known only from the type locality in Texas.(3)

M. dentoides: northeastern USA, inland to about Tennessee.(2)

M. formosa: eastern USA & southeastern Canada.(2)(4)

M. grata: known from Florida, Michigan, Minnesota, & Ontario.(2)(4)

M. lineata: eastern USA & southeastern Canada, but may be displaced by M. sulcosa in Florida and along the southern coast.(2)(4)

M. obtusa: known only from the type localities in Texas.[cite487565]

M. pikei: eastern USA & southeastern Canada.(2)(4)

M. robusta: known only from Arizona & California.(2)

M. sulcosa: apparently restricted to Florida and the coastal region of the southern Atlantic states (GA, SC, NC).(2)

Remarks

M. bina & M. formosa are very similar-looking; they were once thought to be the same species, but Barnes 1958(2) separated them based on differences in genitalia.

M. bryantae & M. pikei look the same in body coloration and have only slight differences in their genitalia, so might just be variations of a single species, according to Logunov(3). It will not be known for sure until more M. bryantae are collected.

M. lineata & M. dentoides are similar in coloration(2).

Internet References

Verified images found online:

Marpissa bina: http://salticidae.org/salticid/diagnost/marpissa/bina-gb.htm

Marpissa formosa: http://tolweb.org/Marpissa_formosa/4572

Marpissa grata: http://tolweb.org/Marpissa_grata/4573

Marpissa lineata: http://tolweb.org/Marpissa_lineata/4580

Marpissa pikei: http://tolweb.org/Marpissa_pikei/4598

Marpissa robusta: http://tolweb.org/Marpissa_robusta/4606

Works Cited

1.	The World Spider Catalog by Norman I. Platnick

2.	North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae) R.D. Barnes. 1958. American Museum novitates no. 1867, 50 pp.

3.	Redefinition of the genera Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846 and Mendoza Peckham & Peckham, 1894 in the scope of the Holarctic fauna Dmitri V. Logunov. 1999. Revue Arachnologique 13: 25-60.

4.	Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska Paquin, Buckle, Duperre, & Dondale. 2010. Zootaxa 2461: 1–170.

Contributed by tom murray on 18 November, 2005 - 7:26am
Additional contributions by Mandy Howe
Last updated 23 July, 2012 - 5:50pm

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