Species

Phidippus clarus (Brilliant jumping spider)

Phidippus clarus. Photo: (c) nphsu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Phidippus clarus is a species of jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in old fields throughout eastern North America. It often waits upside down near the top of a plant, which may be useful for detecting prey, and then quickly jumps down before the prey can escape. The spider is one of 60 species in the genus Phidippus,:vii and one of about 5,000 in the Salticidae, a family that accounts for about 10% of all spider species. P. clarus…

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