Two-spotted Jumping Spider - ? Opisthoncus sp.

FAMILY SALTICIDAE

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

Body length 6mm

 

We found in spider in Sunnybank near  Bulimba Creek on Dec 2007..

 

   

 

 

 

From the drawing in Jerzy Proszynski's page, this could be the male Opisthoncus polyphemus.

 

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Reference:

1. Opisthoncus sp (Two-spotted Jumping Spider) - by Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now. 

2. Opisthoncus polyphemus (L. Koch, 1867) - Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library, by Jerzy Proszynski, 1999. 

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