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FAMILY SALTICIDAE
- This page contains pictures and information about Aussie Bronze Jumping Spiders that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - Male protecting his nest with a female inside.
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- For this species of jumping spider, the males are larger than the females.
This is quite an exceptional case in the world of spider which usually males
are smaller. This species the male will protect the nest while the female
inside the nest. When we took the above photo, we expected the jumping
spider will ran away or at least hided behind the leaf, but this male stand
right in front of the camera.
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 - Male, body length
10mm
Female, body length 8mm
Young female
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Female
 
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- This is another species of Jumping Spider, with slender body light brown in
colour. In the above first picture, one leg of the spider is missing.
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- As all other jumping spiders, this jumping spider hunts by jumping on small
insects. They need very good eyesight to do this. Notice its very large front
pair of eyes.
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- Photos were taken on March 2009 on Mt Coot-tha.
Male
 
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- This Jumping Spider was found on Wattle leaves a few times.
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- This jumping spider has the slender brown body. There are white rings on
the front pair of its legs.
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Their Retreat
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- This spider build retreat on a curved single green leaf. This species the male will protect the nest while the female
inside the nest.
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- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p105.
- 2. Spiders - genus Helpis
- lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan, 2007.
- 3. Jumping spider -
The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian
Spiders, University of Southern Queensland, 2007.
- 4. Helpis minitabunda
Inquisitive Jumping Spider - by Robert Whyte, Save Our Waterways Now.
- 5. Salticidae Jumping Spiders - Spiders of Australia, Ed Nieuwenhuys, 2009.
- 6. Helpis minitabunda (L. Koch, 1880) -
Salticidae Diagnostic Drawings Library, by Jerzy Proszynski 1997.
- 7. Spiders
of Australia: An Introduction to Their Classification, Biology &
Distribution - Hawkeswood T, Pensoft Pub, 2003, p76.
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