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- This page contains pictures and information about Jumping Spiders, the
salticids, that we
found in the Brisbane area, Queensland, Australia.
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 - On your mark, get set...............jump!
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- Jumping Spider, the salticids, is a very large family contains the most colourful species of spiders.
They are from small to medium size. They
are easily recognized by their eyes pattern. Their front pair of eyes are very
large with another three pair of smaller eyes on thorax, in three row of
4-2-2. They have very good eyesight and active during the day. The arrangements
of four pairs of eyes makes their vision covers virtually entire 360 degree.
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- Each species in this family have different patterns on
their body. When you look at them, they will either hide away on
the other side of the leaf or will turn their head and look back at
you.
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- In this web site we listed different species of jumping spiders that we
commonly found in
Brisbane. For more information about jumping spiders in general, please
visit our jumping spider Biology page.
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- Genus Opisthoncus
 
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- Genus
Sandalodes and Genus Mopsus
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- Under-bark
Jumpers
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- Ant-mimicking
Jumpers
 
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- Small
Brown Jumpers
 
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- Other Groups
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- Unknown Jumpers
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- Reference:
- 1. A Guide to Australian Spiders - Densey Clyne, Melbourne, Nelson
1969, p51.
- 2. Australian Spiders in colour - Ramon Mascord, Reed Books Pty Ltd,
1970, p26.
- 3. Spiders - family Salticidae
- lifeunseen.com,
by Nick Monaghan, 2007.
- 4. The Find-a-spider Guide for Australian
Spiders - University of Southern Queensland, 2009.
- 5, Salticidae Jumping Spiders - Insects of Townsville, Australia - Graeme Cocks.
- 6. Salticidae Jumping Spiders - Spiders of Australia, Ed Nieuwenhuys, 2009.
- 7. SALTICIDAE Jumping Spiders - Save Our Waterways Now.
- 8. Family
SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 - Australian Faunal Directory, Australian Biological Resources Study.
- 9. PREDATORY BEHAVIOR OF JUMPING SPIDERS
- R.R. Jackson and S.D. Pollard, Annual Review of Entomology, Vol. 41: 287-308 (January 1996).
- 10. Australia - List of Species of Salticidae - by Jerzy Proszynski, 1999.
- 11. A pictorial index of genera of the Australian Salticidae - Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library by Jerzy Proszynski 2006.
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