Jumping Spider

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Photo by PhilipChen

Published on Project Noah

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Field Notes

Description:

about 20mm long in length, having very long legs.
brownish with white texture
It has big "hammer look - hand?"(i dont know what is it called)
it extremely alert and fast escape.

Habitat:

woody jungle,
found this at tree bark brownish white background. it camouflage well with bark or woody texture from top view.

Species ID Suggestions

Phaeacius malayensis

Ashutosh Dudhatra

+ vote

Comments (13)

Ashutosh Dudhatra

It is a salticid from subfamily Spartaeinae..This subfamily also include Portia and Brettus ..This subfamily can be differentiated from other jumpers by presence of larger posterior median eye whc is too small in other jumpers

Jack Settle

Awesome!

Wild Things

Lovely pics!

Neil Ross

Brilliant photos! What an amazing spider, and what big eyes he/she has. Photos to be proud of, Philip. Beautiful clarity and light.

PhilipChen

thanks agravate :)

agravate

Wow. Amazing photos.

PhilipChen

thanks TicThapanya, Mariana1 and sofit1 Atul, yupe i still have some more shots of this jumper.