Long-jawed Jumping Spider - Opisthoncus sp.

FAMILY SALTICIDAE

This page contains pictures and information about Long-jawed Jumping Spiders that we found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.

Body length 10mm

 

This jumping spider look like the Biting Jumping Spider, black to dark brown in colour, but with extra large jaws.

  

 

 

 

 

 

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Reference:

1. Jumping spiders Family Salticidae - by Ed Nieuwenhuys, 26 November 2006.

2. Jumping spider Opisthoncus species - The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.

3. Opisthoncus sp. (Big-jawed Jumping Spider) - by Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now. 

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