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13-02-2011, 03:25 PM
|  | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Devon, UK.
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| | | ID Request : Salticidae Species.
Afternoon,
It has been a stressful afternoon looking at just two spiders using Collins by Michael Roberts.
One of them was this one that I believe to be a Salticidae species due to the flattened front shape of the head and the number of eyes. Four large front eyes, two smaller ones further back followed by two larger ones further back still.
It is quite nimble and jumps about three or four centimetres as it runs. It measures about three to four millimetres in length.
That is as far as I can take it though much to be frustration. can anyone help me out here?
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Andrew.    |
13-02-2011, 03:38 PM
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| | | Re: ID Request : Salticidae Species.
Afternoon Andrew,
It looks like Pseudophrys lanigera to me - Salticidae as you say.
Take care,
Jason |
13-02-2011, 07:55 PM
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| | | Re: ID Request : Salticidae Species.
Evening Jason,
Thanks a bunch, that looks spot on.
There are some stunning images of these Pseudophrys lanigera on the net that I aspire to match but these critters do not keep still for long and the 'essential' use of a 1.5x teleconverter degraded the image quality. The cheap ring flash did not help either.
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18-02-2011, 06:41 PM
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| | | Re: ID Request : Salticidae Species.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Jason Green  Afternoon Andrew,
It looks like Pseudophrys lanigera to me - Salticidae as you say.
Take care,
Jason | Evening Jason,
Carl kindly had a look at this spider for me under a microscope and you were spot on with Pseudeuophrys lanigera. Thanks again.
Regards,
Andrew. |
18-02-2011, 08:12 PM
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| | | Re: ID Request : Salticidae Species.
Glad to hear it.
I personally wouldn't think of 'scoping lanigerus; I believe it's reasonably field-identifiable. That said, it could be retained for the purposes of a reference collection. One day if you get one that doesn't check-out then it could make good 'comparative material'. |
18-02-2011, 09:06 PM
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The specimen albeit very dark was discernable without the mic  .
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