![]() | Jovial Jumping Spider S1, Posterior | Jovial Jumping Spider S6, Face | ![]() | |||
Animals Plants Info |
Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||||||||||||||
Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||||
Family: | Jumping Spider (Salticidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
Species: | Jovial Jumping Spider (Apricia jovialis)This Photo: | S1, Face | Synonyms: | Breda jovialis or Ocrisiona jovialis | Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere Females are from ~5mm to ~7mm long. It seems the typical orange band on the can be almost non-existant, or very strong.
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