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Jumping spider
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Fact Box
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Opisthoncus species (JS, QM)
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female: 9 mm
male: 7 mm
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Usually on the green leaves of shrubs and low trees
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Unknown; may at least produce 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 polyphemus and Opisthoncus parcedentatus.
Email Ron Atkinson for more information.
Last updated 17 April 2008.
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