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Anybody have any idea what kind of spider this is?! Found on my car in southwest Ohio — it stayed on and followed me all the way home! It’s a cute little thing. Following me around my car as I walk around.
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- Submitted: Jul 4, 2024
- Photographed: Jul 4, 2024
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
It may be a male golden jumping spider Paraphidippus aurantius
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/226008848
With those markings it definitely looks like it! I didn’t see much green in him, and he didn’t look furry but the white marks are pretty much exact!
The green colour is caused by bright light shining on scales on the spiders back. So it isn’t obvious in all lighting conditions …Males tend to be darker than the females too.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/13939455
It definitely looks like a jumping spider of some sort. Pretty sure it would be a male, because those look like bulbs on his pedipalps!