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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Platycryptus » Platycryptus californicus
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Jumping Spider - Platycryptus californicus - male
Copyright © 2012 Jim Moore

Jumping Spider - Platycryptus californicus - Male
In Westwood - elevation 5100ft, Lassen County, California, USA
July 5, 2011
Size: 6.5mm
Perhaps Platycryptus californicus? If so then it would be the first CA data point for this species!
My thanks for a confirmation, or correct ID.

A common jumping spider in my yard - most often seen on the exterior walls of the house.
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Contributed by Jim Moore on 11 January, 2012 - 1:18am
Last updated 19 July, 2012 - 3:29am

Thanks Kevin!
Moved from Platycryptus.
… Jim Moore, 12 January, 2012 - 11:03pm login or register to post comments

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Seems like it would have to be. Barnes (1958) says that it is found "along the entire Pacific coast of North America, where it replaces M. undata."
… Kevin Pfeiffer, 11 January, 2012 - 7:04am login or register to post comments

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