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- This page contains pictures and information about Jumping Spiders in genus
Sandalodes
that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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- Jumping Spiders in genus Sandalodes are large and robust. Male
spider's front pair eyes are large and with eyebrow.
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- The genus Sandalodes is closely related with genus Mopsus. They
are put together as the same genus in the old days.
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- Double-brush Jumper
 - Female
Young female
Male
- Sandalodes bipenicillatus, female body length 10mm
- We usually found Double-brush Jumping Spiders on wattle or she-oak leaves and stems.
They have the very
long and strong front legs. The males front pair eyes are large and with
long eyebrow -
the double brushes. The white markings on this black spider are distinctive. The patterns are
variable in different individuals. This spider is common in eucalypt forests
in Brisbane. More details please click on here.
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- Ludicra Jumping Spider
 
 - Female
Female
Male
- Sandalodes superbus, (Bavia ludicra), body length 12mm
- This is quite a large jumping spider. We sometimes found them hunting on
young Eucalyptus tree. Click here
for more pictures and information.
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- Sandal Jumping Spider
 - ? Sandalodes or Orisiona sp.
- This jumping spider built her egg-sac on the bottom side of a thin horizontal
stick. The spider was guarding the egg-sac when we saw it. It was Nov 2009
in Boondall Wetlands.
 - Reference:
- 1. Salticidae Jumping Spiders - Spiders of Australia, Ed Nieuwenhuys, 2009.
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- Reference:
- 1. Spiders - genus Sandalodes
- lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan, 2007.
- 2. Salticidae (Arachnida :
Araneae) of the Oriental, Australian and Pacific regions, XIII: the genus Sandalodes Keyserling
- Marek Zabka, Invertebrate Taxonomy, 2000, 14, 695–704.
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