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Smaller than a pencil eraser. No idea what this little guy is...
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- Submitted: Jun 11, 2019
- Photographed: Jun 8, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Portlandville , New York, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Definitely a jumping spider but what kind I am not sure. There are quite a few different orange/black ones and even within the species the patterns vary quite a bit.
His colors and markings are beautiful. My biology teacher of 35 yrs ago agrees with jumping spider. She thought Daring was almost like this guy but says they are usually found in the Western US. May have hitched a ride in a delivery truck. He is actually really tiny. Smaller than a pencil eraser.
Definitely not a daring jumper. They have a couple orange spots or a brown tint sometimes but never this much orange. You can look up salticidae on bugguide and see if you can narrow it down.
After looking around my best guess is Phidippus whitmani
Thank you for your help with ID’ing. Lol I will call him Phidip, My husband’s name happens to be Philip.