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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) » Marpissa » Marpissa formosa
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Spider BG534 - Marpissa formosa - male
Copyright © 2007 Gayle and Jeanell Strickland

Spider BG534 - Marpissa formosa - Male
Baton Rouge, Hilltop Arboretum, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
October 29, 2006
Size: body length 7.2 mm.
First erroneously placed in Thiodina.
Gayle

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Spider BG534 - Marpissa formosa - male Spider BG534 - Marpissa formosa - male Spider BG534 - Marpissa formosa - male
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Contributed by Gayle and Jeanell Strickland on 29 January, 2007 - 5:02pm
Last updated 30 May, 2017 - 3:31pm

Moved here tentatively
Moved from Marpissa. I'm pretty sure this is the species.
… Chad Heins, 30 May, 2017 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Thiodina sylvana.
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 29 January, 2007 - 6:09pm login or register to post comments

This
looks like one of the Marpissa species to me. See also Bugguide genus images.
… Jeff Hollenbeck, 29 January, 2007 - 5:35pm login or register to post comments

 
Thanks again, Jeff
Boy, do I have a short memory.
I promise not to place another Marpissa in Thiodina!
Gayle
… Gayle and Jeanell Strickland, 29 January, 2007 - 6:13pm login or register to post comments

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