Comments & ID Thoughts
I found this guy in my car and brought him in to take a pic. My friend says he might be some sort of jumping spider. I live in the Dallas-Fort Worth area so I don’t know if that means anything. Oh and it looks like he has these shiny blue-ish green-ish fang things. Obviously I don’t know really anything about spiders, but I’m just curious what kind of spider hitched a ride with me today!
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- Submitted: Oct 10, 2019
- Photographed: Oct 10, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Fort Worth, Texas, United States
- Spotted Indoors: Other
- Found in web?: No
- Attributes:
Hi, this looks like a bold jumping spider, Phiddipus audax.
Hi, the shiny teal things are his chelacerae. In Jumping Spiders the females are said to be attracted to large chelacerae on males. Each chelacera contains a hollow fang and a venom sac. The venom sac has a tube that enters a fang. Some jumping spiders have shiny chelacerae, many have large hairy ones.