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Jumping Spider

Portia schultzi

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Portia Jumping Spider
Portia schultzi Portia schultzi


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4 Comments

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 12 years ago

Welcome.
I won't be 100% correct because I'm not an Arachnologist yet.
In fact, I'm just a high school student who depend on my natural history encyclopedia and spider guide book to help me in identifying arthropods.

dungeonmasterShu
dungeonmasterShu 12 years ago

i will be posting another Jumping Spider (Salticidae) soon, would be thrilled if you could ID that one too! Even just to Genus level!

dungeonmasterShu
dungeonmasterShu 12 years ago

Thank you very much.

ChunXingWong
ChunXingWong 12 years ago

According to Wikipedia,
Portia schultzi is one of the 2 species of Portia spiders in Africa.
The other species- Portia africana, is found in West and Central Africa.

dungeonmasterShu
Spotted by
dungeonmasterShu

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Spotted on Feb 1, 2010
Submitted on Oct 14, 2011

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