Spotting

Description:

A small jumping spider, shown here perched on the tip of my gloved finger. It had a completely white dorsal surface, and mottled brown ventral area and legs (the legs looked to be light brown with dark brown banding). Seemed to be designed to blend in to a rotting log with white fungus or lichen growing on it. I found it walking on my neck or shoulder, after I had walked down a trail through some woods. It jumped off my finger and lowered itself to the ground via a spider web (for awhile it was just hanging in mid-air).

Habitat:

Found in a riparian forest, within the Central American dry forest ecoregion, at 750 meters above sea level, on the floor of the Yeguare Valley (very close to the Yeguare River). This is on the Pacific slope of Honduras.

Notes:

On the Zamorano campus nature trail (Eco-sendero), in the municipality of San Antonio Oriente, department of Francisco Morazán, Honduras.