putnami group

Classification · Numbers · Identification · Range · Works Cited

Large Female - Phidippus carolinensis - female

spider in the bald cypress tree - Phidippus putnami

A salticid for ID. TIA - Phidippus putnami - male

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 putnami group

Numbers

Phidippus putnami (Peckham & Peckham 1883)

Phidippus richmani Edwards 2004

Phidippus comatus Peckham & Peckham 1901

Phidippus carolinensis Peckham & Peckham 1909

Phidippus zethus Edwards 2004

Identification

Excerpts from Edwards, 2004:

"...The placement of P. zethus should be regarded as tentative.

...The four terminal species, P. carolinensis, P. comatus, P. richmani, and P. putnami, form a strongly unified group. Males have dorsal crests replacing the post-PME tufts, and they perform “rotary” courtships with the legs I and palps (these appendages are rotated in small circular motions). Typically, their leg I fringes are not as strikingly banded as in many other species, but instead have many brindled setae intermixed with monocolored setae (black and either white or yellow)..."(1)

Range

Represented by BugGuide Data maps unless otherwise noted.

For detailed geographic range and records, refer to Edwards, 2004(1)

Phidippus putnami

Phidippus richmani

Phidippus comatus

Phidippus carolinensis

Phidippus zethus - Mexico(1)

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 - 12:07pm
Last updated 22 August, 2018 - 5:39pm

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