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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Phidippus » audax group (Phidippus audax group)

audax group

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited
Phidippus pulcherrimus - Phidippus princeps stmtnvl29Mar11 - Phidippus audax - male penultimate instar - Phidippus audax - female Phidippus audax Jumping spider - Phidippus princeps Bold Jumper (Phidippus audax) - Phidippus audax - female Phidippus audax Phidippus sp. - Phidippus audax
Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynae)
Family Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)
Genus Phidippus
No Taxon audax group
Numbers
Phidippus princeps (Peckham & Peckham 1883)
Phidippus princeps pulcherrimus Keyserling 1885
Phidippus bidentatus F.O.P.C. 1901
Phidippus audax (Hentz 1845)
Phidippus felinus Edwards
Phidippus workmani Peckham & Peckham 1901
Identification
Excerpts from Edwards, 2004:
"The six group members all have the palea extended wider on the proximal side of a small ectal notch (P. clarus also has this state; some preliminary cladograms had this species basal within the audax group)..."(1)
Range
Represented by BugGuide Data maps unless otherwise noted.
For detailed geographic range and records, refer to Edwards, 2004(1)
Phidippus princeps - New England south to Georgia, to Utah, north to Saskatchewan.
Phidippus princeps pulcherrimus - Florida, Alabama, Georgia.
Phidippus bidentatus - Texas to NW Costa Rica.
Phidippus audax - Widespread in US and Canada.
Phidippus felinus - Arizona and New Mexico. Not yet represented on BugGuide, or a currently unrecognized image submission.
Phidippus workmani - Florida and Georgia.
Works Cited
1.Revision of the Jumping Spiders of the Genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae)
G. B. Edwards, Ph.D. 2003. Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Contributed by Jeff Hollenbeck on 16 October, 2006 - 12:04pm
Additional contributions by Jay Greenberg, Nathaniel Green
Last updated 5 July, 2022 - 12:01pm

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