White-banded Jumping Spider S2, Skull Pattern on Abdomen | White-banded Jumping Spider S2, Female, ventral | |||||
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| Class: | Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida) | |||||||||||||||
| Order: | Spiders (Araneae) | |||||||||||||||
| Family: | Jumping Spider (Salticidae) iNaturalist Observation | |||||||||||||||
| Species: | White-banded Jumping Spider (Hypoblemum griseum)| This Photo: | 🔍S7, Female, posterior🔎 | Synonym: | Maratus griseus | Thank you Gelkiu for confirming the id of this species for us General Species Information: Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere Females are ~7-8mm. The one male we measured was ~6.5 These are very variable. It seems the skull pattern on the abdomen is a rarity, rather than the norm.
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