Species
Phidippus clarus (Brilliant jumping spider)
Phidippus clarus. Photo: (c) nphsu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
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…
- Humboldt Life
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Subphylum: Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
- Class: Arachnida (Arachnids)
- Order: Araneae (Spiders)
- Suborder: Araneomorphae (Typical spiders)
- Infraorder: Entelegynae (Entelegyne spiders)
- Superfamily: Salticoidea (Salticoid spiders)
- Family: Salticidae (Jumping spiders)
- Subfamily: Salticinae (Typical jumping spiders)
- Tribe: Dendryphantini
- Subtribe: Dendryphantina
- Genus: Phidippus
- Complex: Phidippus cardinalis
- Species: Phidippus clarus (Brilliant jumping spider)
- Complex: Phidippus cardinalis
- Genus: Phidippus
- Subtribe: Dendryphantina
- Tribe: Dendryphantini
- Subfamily: Salticinae (Typical jumping spiders)
- Family: Salticidae (Jumping spiders)
- Superfamily: Salticoidea (Salticoid spiders)
- Infraorder: Entelegynae (Entelegyne spiders)
- Suborder: Araneomorphae (Typical spiders)
- Order: Araneae (Spiders)
- Class: Arachnida (Arachnids)
- Subphylum: Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
- Phylum: Arthropoda (Arthropods)
- Kingdom: Animalia (Animals)

