Flat Striped Jumping Spider: Male, anterior

Flat Striped Jumping Spider (Zebraplatys sp)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Jumping Spider (Salticidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Flat Striped Jumping Spider (Zebraplatys sp)

This Photo:

Male, anterior

Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
Male, ~5mm long.
Most of the white are tiny short bristly hairs.
Note how flat it is, thick front legs and indented abdomen. They front large eyes reflect green & have white "eyelashes".
While this isn't listed on the Murraylands Survey, we wanted to highlight how rare it is with very few specimens found.

This species is classed as

RA (Rare)

in the Murray Mallee, SA, by DENR (Regional Species Status Assessments, July 2010)

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