Holoplatys species?

Fact Box Species: Holoplatys species? (This identification is based on similarities with other Holoplatys species and with images presented in Ed Nieuwenhuys' Australian spider website - see notes below) Family: Salticidae Body length: female: 5-6 mm male: 4-5 mm Habitat: This species is sometimes found on or under bark in eucalypt forests but, being quite mobile, it may occasionally be shaken from green leaves and is quite often also seen wandering on fences and outer house walls Toxicity: This timid spider prefers to escape rather than defend itself and a bite by it is unlikely to cause more than just local pain and inflammation

View from front Underneath spider Another female? Front view Its underside Another female?

Note that this species has a rather different general appearance than that for the better known Holoplatys species such as H. planissima but it does have the same fringe of white hairs around the sternum that Holoplatys species has and also possesses a dense brush of white hairs on the palps as shown in some of Ed Nieuwenhuys' images.

Spider(s) with a very similar appearance: Clynotis severus.