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Jumping Spider - Admestina wheeleri - male
Copyright © 2012 Dick Walton

Jumping Spider - Admestina wheeleri - Male
Concord, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
July 24, 2012
Size: 3 mm
The flattened shape and uncharacteristic movement (it almost seems to slither along with much bobbing of the abdomen) of this jumper had me wondering (at first) if it really was a salticid. Piel's (1991) paper describes the 3 species of Admestina with this being the most northerly.

Images from video at:
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Spiders

ID confirmed G. B. Edwards (2 August 2012 - FSCA)

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Jumping Spider - Admestina wheeleri - male Jumping Spider - Admestina wheeleri - male
Contributed by Dick Walton on 26 July, 2012 - 10:16pm
Last updated 3 August, 2012 - 8:14am

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