3 Striped Capuchin Jumping Spider at Crace, ACT
Identification history
| Euophryinae sp.(Striped Capuchin- undescribed) | 30 Apr 2021 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Euophryinae sp.(Undescribed) (subfamily) | 29 Apr 2021 | Harrisi | ||
| Maratus sp. (genus) | 29 Apr 2021 | DPRees125 | ||
| Unidentified | 26 Apr 2021 | DPRees125 |
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User's notes
This one has thrown me, quite a spectacular little thing. no more than 3mm long. thinking about it and investigating it would not surprise me that this is a juvernile Maratus peacock spider, which one I have no idea
8 comments
DPRees125
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
Harrisi
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
Not a Maratus David thought part of subfamily Euophyrinae which also contains genera like Jotus and Saitis, as well as Maratus and Lycidas. The one you have here is common in drier areas of the ACT, and widespread west of here..
Harrisi
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
Still a lot of undescribed Salticids out there David and very few taxonomists. Remains nameless/undescribed as far as I know but I don't have the contacts I use to within those circles. Dr Barry Richardson at CSIRO was developing a salticid key a few years ago, not sure how far he got?
DPRees125
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
OK, in the absence of science (I wonder how much this is a 'priority' for the modern CSIRO) let us in the meantime call it the Striped Capuchin Jumping Spider, it does need a common name.
Harrisi
wrote:
29 Apr 2021
Call it what you want David for the past ten years I've simply referred to them as 'Tigers' re their stripes...
DPRees125
wrote:
1 May 2021
I have place some better quality images of this beast in a flickr album at https://flic.kr/s/aHsmVtbci8
DPRees125
wrote:
4 May 2021
a film of this great little animal can be seen at https://vimeo.com/544821771
Location information
- Maps Gungaderra Grasslands
- Places Crace, ACT
Sighting information
- 1 - 3 Abundance
- 26 Apr 2021 01:06 PM Recorded on
- DPRees125 Recorded by
Additional information
- Less than 5mm Animal size
Species information
- Euophryinae sp.(Striped Capuchin- undescribed) Scientific name
- Striped Capuchin Jumping Spider Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-Invasive
- Up to 672.7m Recorded at altitude
- Machine learning
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- More than one media file
- Confirmed by an expert moderator
- Nearby sighting(s) of same species
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