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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Messua » Messua limbata
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Iridescent Salticid - Messua limbata
Copyright © 2011 Ty Fitzmorris

Iridescent Salticid - Messua limbata
Sedona/Oak Creek, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
May 15, 2011
Size: Roughly 4mm
This beautiful little salticid was perched on my book and then hunting around the rocks in a riparian gallery along Oak Creek, in an alder-sycamore community.

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Contributed by Ty Fitzmorris on 15 May, 2011 - 12:43pm
Last updated 27 July, 2013 - 9:35pm

misidentified?
The palps look masculine, but the chelicerae are clearly not those of a male M. limbata.
… joot, 12 August, 2018 - 10:29am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Jumping Spiders.
… Chad Heins, 27 July, 2013 - 9:35pm login or register to post comments

Reminds me of
a male Messua limbata.
… Chad Heins, 12 July, 2013 - 10:24pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request. Moved here for the jumping spider experts to comment.
… Lynette Elliott, 15 May, 2011 - 1:01pm login or register to post comments

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