Directory of Salticidae Resources

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Jumping spiders. Distinguished from other spiders by the four large eyes on the face and four smaller eyes on top of the head. More than 5000 species worldwide.

Resources in This Category

• Bold Jumping Spider: Phidippus audax

  http://www.uark.edu/ua/arthmuse/boldjump.html
  Photographs and information on the natural history of this species.

• Jumping Spider

  http://wiki.bugwood.org/HPIPM:Jumping_Spider
  Photographs, description, life history and habits.

• Jumping Spider: Salticus scenicus

  http://bioweb.uwlax.edu/bio203/2010/roth_lynn/
  Student project on this spider, also known as the zebra spider, including classification, habitat, adaptation, nutrition, reproduction and interactions with other species.

• Jumping Spiders

  http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CritterFiles/casefile/spiders/jumping/jumping.htm
  Information on these spiders and photographs of a number of species found in Kentucky.

• Jumping Spiders

  http://entoplp.okstate.edu/ddd/insects/jumpingspider.htm
  Photographs of these spiders with information on their habitat and description.

• Jumping Spiders - Salticidae

  http://www.xs4all.nl/~ednieuw/Spiders/Salticidae/Salticidae.htm
  Photo gallery from the Netherlands.

• Jumping Spiders of the World

  http://salticidae.org/
  Information on the diversity and biology of the world's Salticidae, with photos, drawings, and links.

• Lyssomanes viridis

  http://www.archive.org/details/CourtshipMatingLyssomanesViridisMPEG4V3
  David Edwin Hill provides a movie showing the courtship and mating behavior of this green jumping spider.

• Menemerus bivittatus and Plexippus paykulli

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/jumping_spiders.htm
  Provides photographs and a description of these two species, the Gray Wall Jumper and the Pantropical Jumper.

• Phidippus audax

  http://www.archive.org/details/PortraitoffeedingfemalePhidippusaudax
  David Edwin Hill provides a movie showing adult and immature spiders feeding on spider and insect prey.

• Phidippus regius: Regal Jumping Spider

  http://entnemdept.ifas.ufl.edu/creatures/misc/regal_jumping_spider.htm
  Provides photographs and a description of this spider, with information on its distribution, identification, habits, habitat and detection.

• Salticidae

  http://tolweb.org/tree?group=Salticidae&contgroup=Dionycha
  Detailed information about jumping spider biology and systematics by Wayne Maddison. Includes full list and photo gallery of genera of jumping spiders found in America North of Mexico.

• Salticidae (Jumping Spiders)

  http://www.biodiversityexplorer.org/arachnids/spiders/salticidae/
  Provides photographs and information from the Biodiversity Explorer.

• The Peckham Society

  http://www.peckhamia.com/
  An informal international alliance of amateur and professional jumping spider researches. Publishes the online journal Peckhamia.

• The Zebra Spider

  http://www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/artmay00/zebraw.html
  Article by Wim van Egmond on this spider, Salticus scenicus, its hunting methods and its superb eyesight, with 3D photographs.

• Thiodina sylvana

  http://www.archive.org/details/MaleThiodinasylvanafeedingonOxyopessalticus
  David Edwin Hill provides a movie showing an adult male jumping spider feeding on an immature lynx spider (Oxyopes salticus).

• Use of Location Information by Jumping Spiders

  http://www.scribd.com/doc/6580618/Hill-2007-Use-of-Location-Information-by-Jumping-Spiders-V3-EB
  Paper by David Edwin Hill on the ability of these spiders to move to a new position to facilitate an attack on sighted prey.

 

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