Wildlife Spotting

....that's the problem with "common names" Michael. I love this family of spiders - include some of the cutest ones. Looks like you've he/she's on one of those beauiful eucalyptus trees.

I think you have a "jumping spider" (family: Salticidae). Monkey Spiders are an amazonian species - said to be large and aggressive like this one: https://www.flickr.com/photos/williamquatman/395455799

Yes, Arthropods are a larger grouping (phylum) that contain insects, arachnids, myriapods (millipedes, centipedes, etc) and crustaceans.

I've moved this from the Other category to the Arthropods category as spiders are arthropods. I don't know about the spider, but the tree it's on is a Rainbow Eucalyptus-- Eucalyptus deglupta -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_deglupta Maybe you could take a few pictures of the leaves as well as the bark, and add it as a seperate spotting from the spider.