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Jumping spider
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Fact Box
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Opisthoncus species (QM)
(a variant of O. parcedentatus?)
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female: about 9 mm
male: about 7 mm
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Usually on green leaves of shrubs
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Bites may cause local pain
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This is one of several salticid species that prefers to live among green leaves, one of which is partly rolled into a tube which the spider uses as a retreat.
Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Opisthoncus parcedentatus.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 10 November 2010.
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