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Jumping spider

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Species:
Opisthoncus polyphemus (QM)
(identification also derived from an image on the salticid website of Ed Nieuwenhuys)
Family:
Salticidae
Body length:
female: 6 mm
male: about 7 mm
Habitat:
This spider is most often shaken from the green leaves of shrubs and low trees but may also be found in a leaf rolled into a tube for use as a retreat and as a place for depositing an egg sac
Toxicity:
The toxicity of this spider's venom is unknown but is likely to at least produce local pain
Opisthoncus polyphemus
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Side view
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Underneath spider

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Opisthoncus species.


Email Ron Atkinson for more information.    Last updated 21 February 2007.