Bronze Jumping Spider

Description:

around 7mm for the males. The sexes can be mistaken for different species. Generally, these are not a jumping spider that moves in bursts but which seem to walk steadily unless actually making capture

Habitat:

Very common in this garden in open platforms close to plants or made of plants such as the leaves of bromeliads. Most of these turn to face the camera. Daytime hunter. Most plentiful in autumn, summer and spring,

Notes:

One year this species was so common in the backyard at Budgewoi that there was literally one subject every 1m or so along the garage wall in the sun, on the bromeliad leaves and along the steel panels of the backfence