Red-faced Jumping Spider: Male, Head

Class:

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

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Jumping Spider (Salticidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Red-faced Jumping Spider (Saitis sp)

This Photo:

🔍Male, Head🔎

Thank you Suzanne and Jim for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA) and elsewhere
This is an undescribed species.
~4mm long
Red face
Yellow/orange hairy palps
Waved 3rd leg (couldn't get a photo of it)
Metallic Blue scales on 3rd legs
White hair on the inside metatarsusi of the 3rd legs
A strange red structure behind it's head
Large rear eyes
3 vertical white stripes at the back of the head, and around the lower rim of the cephalothorax.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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