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Field Notes

Description:

metalic orange and black abdomen spider, eating another spider

Habitat:

fragmented Quercus forest-urban area

Species ID Suggestions

Jumping Spider

Paraphidippus aurantius

Reference Link
Atul
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Comments (7)
Atul
Consider adding this spotting to the Jumping Spiders mission http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/19167135
bayucca
Should be a Jumping Spider, Salticidae. I only know "metallic" ones from the genus Sassacus in US (Dendryphantinae). http://www.flickr.com/photos/bob_barber/7847640158/ Salticidae should be OK, but the rest is just using my eyes... But you may check yourself.

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Mission
WILD Cities: Urban Biodiversity
Mission
Mexico Horn of Plenty
Mission
Jumping Spiders of the World
Photographed
PublishedSeptember 30, 2013

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