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Bold Jumper - Phidippus audax -

Puyallup, Pierce County, Washington, USA
March 15, 2010
Size: around 20 mm

This is the largest Bold Jumper I've ever seen. It was eating a bold jumper that is about the size I'm used to seeing. Note the split white mark on the back. I wonder if that used to be one spot and split as the abdomen extended.

This is an outdoor population that lives on fences and retaining walls near a retention pond.

Contributed by Lynette Elliott on 15 March, 2010 - 9:32pm
Last updated 25 May, 2010 - 8:40pm

Nice

Did you collect her? Maybe she'll produce an extra-large egg sac.

Sometimes an individual spider will go through an extra instar, and end up being larger than average as an adult (Morse mentions this in his book on Misumena vatia).

… John Sloan, 16 March, 2010 - 1:22am

Nope

As usual it was just me & the camera. I need to order more vials.

… Lynette Elliott, 16 March, 2010 - 9:35am

Wow!

I didn't even know there *were* bold jumpers up there. All I remember from childhood in Oregon was P. clarus. Is this species a fairly recent addition to the fauna there?

… Eric R. Eaton, 16 March, 2010 - 11:28am

I'll have to ask Rod

They've been here since I've been here, but that hasn't been too long.

… Lynette Elliott, 16 March, 2010 - 5:43pm

From Rod

In our state, P. audax (which first appeared in eastern WA in 1978, in
western WA around 1990) is mainly a house spider. It's quite a common
house spider in eastern WA cities but very spottily distributed on the
west side.

… Lynette Elliott, 25 May, 2010 - 8:39pm

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