Tiny jumping spider - Attidops

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… dragonfly12, 5 May, 2021 - 11:34am

Attidops nickersoni?

I wonder if this might instead be Attidops nickersoni. From the genus revision:
A. nickersoni: "only two pale yellow, very narrow, transverse abdominal bands"
A. youngi: "three white, narrow, transverse abdominal bands"
The habitat also matches ("under the bark of longleaf pine"), and the location is about midway between the known ranges of the two species (Central Florida for A. nickersoni and south to Tennessee and North Carolina for A. youngi.

… dragonfly12, 5 May, 2021 - 11:33am

If you happen to find a bunch

If you happen to find a bunch of them, please send one to me as well so I can photograph the genitalia and add it to Bugguide.

BTW, I noticed in your profile that you have submitted exactly 666 images and 666 comments. I guess you must have made a deal with the devil to find Attidops youngi in Georgia ;)

… dragonfly12, 9 April, 2012 - 11:50pm

Yikes!

That's a pretty odd coincidence. I'm in the midst of a mass-submission, but other responsibilities interfered and I had to take a break for a couple of days. Anyway, I will most certainly be on the lookout for this species in the future, and if I can obtain permission to collect specimens (working on it at the moment,) I will do so.

… Carmen Champagne, 10 April, 2012 - 9:00am

If Ryan is interested, you can cross me off your shopping list (I defer to his specialized interest). :-)

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 10 April, 2012 - 12:27am

Lit here

Carmen,

Here's G.B.'s article on the family and species. The NC record is a literature-only record from 1970. (Feel free to collect one of these for me, too.) :-)

http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_Congress/JoA_v27_n1/arac_27_01_0007.pdf

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 2 April, 2012 - 8:37am

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… Carmen Champagne, 2 April, 2012 - 8:25am

Very interesting, but I have

Very interesting(!), but I have no idea what. More photos would be nice -- perhaps you could capture one and place it in a light-colored bowel?

Or even better, collect one or two?

Looks a good bit like an ant mimic, doesn't it?

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 1 April, 2012 - 9:38am

Tiny Salticid

This is Attidops youngi. It is not previously reported from Georgia, the nearest record is from North Carolina. The specimen appears to be an adult male, which average about 2.5 mm in length. The abdominal markings give the illusion of segmentation, which might make it a pseudoscorpion mimic, although from our perspective, it is hard to see how this would be beneficial. It would be helpful to capture at least one adult to document the species from the state.

… G.B. Edwards, 2 April, 2012 - 7:24am

I'm going to look into...

... whether there's some way to legally collect on county property. I've had requests for various specimens from several experts now, and I would really love to oblige. Assuming that I can get permission to do so, I would of course have to find one of these again.

… Carmen Champagne, 2 April, 2012 - 11:41am

Many thanks, Doc!

Many thanks, Doc!

(I see that the species is already represented BG, and with sharper images it doesn't really look so much like a mimic anymore.)

… Kevin Pfeiffer, 2 April, 2012 - 7:53am