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Phidippus whitmani - male
Copyright © 2011 Ben Coulter

Phidippus whitmani - Male
Fulton County, Pennsylvania, USA
May 21, 2007
Contributed by Ben Coulter on 20 January, 2011 - 3:50pm

Cool!
Pretty sure this is something I saw in Cincinnati back in the 1990s, before I started taking images. I thought it was a velvet ant at first because I'd never before seen an all-orange jumper!
… Eric R. Eaton, 21 January, 2011 - 3:14pm

 
orange Phids
Yeah, this species is pretty widespread and should occur there. There are a few other orange ones in the east (e.g. Phidippus cardinalis) that are superficially similar too.
… Ben Coulter, 21 January, 2011 - 5:22pm

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