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Jumping Spider - Miscallaneous

order Araneae - infraorder Araneomorphae (true spiders) - family Salticidae

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Metallic Jumping Spider Sassacus sp.

Tiny (1/8" long).

It could be S. papenhoei, but the head should be bigger.

This could be a juvenile S. vitis.  The adult would be black with a white band across the abdomen, huge head and short thin legs.

Photos taken in Taylor County, May 2008

 

 

  

 

subfamily Dendryphantinae

Common Hentz Jumper Hentzia palmarum

Tiny (1/8" long).  Those brown legs are its front legs!

Photos taken in Taylor County, October 2007

 

 

  

 

subfamily Dendryphantinae

Peppered Jumper Pelegrina galathea

Tiny (1/8" long).  On Soapberry leaf node.

Photos taken in Taylor County, May 2007

Second Specimen

  

 

Tiny (1/8" long).

Photos taken in Taylor County, August 2008

 

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