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An unidentified jumping spider, from the family Salticidae, the largest family of spiders. Jumping spiders have some of the best vision among invertebrates and use it in courtship, hunting, and navigation. Though they normally move quietly and fairly slowly, most species are capable of very agile jumps, notably when hunting, but sometimes in response to sudden threats. Jumping spiders are generally recognized by their eye pattern. All jumping spiders have four pairs of eyes with very large anterior median eyes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping_spi...
Spotted on a thick patch of Heliconia (whereupon it jumped on my hand) in a large semi-urban yard and garden in the equatorial tropics of northern New Guinea.
Spotted on Jan 17, 2013
Submitted on Jan 18, 2013
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