Small Garden Jumping Spider - Opisthoncus polyphemus

FAMILY SALTICIDAE

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

 

Body length 6mm

 

This is a small jumping spider, with distinct black and white patterns on thorax. This spider is quite common is Brisbane gardens and backyards. They usually hunting on small shrubs and low trees. Above pictures were taken in our backyard in Eight Mail Plains on Oct 2003.

 

 

We found this spider in our backyard a few times.

 

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Reference:

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

2. Species Opisthoncus polyphemus (L. Koch, 1867) - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study. 

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

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