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Unidentified Salticidae
I posted a spotting on Project Noah, last year, which showed a spider exactly like this one - https://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/12.... As you can see in my pictures, this Jumper is pretty much covered in a shiny golden/bronze colour. There is a dark brown mark, rather like an elongated letter "Y", which runs full length down the centre of the carapace, parallel to the long axis of the body.. The combination of the amazing gold colour and that one distinguishing mark immediately reminded me of the previous spotting mentioned above.
This Jumping Spider was spotted on a Currant Tree (Antidesma bunius) in our front yard. In the second picture, it was climbing on a Button Orchid (Dischidia nimmularia) growing on the tree trunk. The identical Jumper in the previous spotting was in the exact same tree. I should point out that the previous spider was spotted in March of 2017 and was not posted on PN until Sept, 2022. This was because I joined Project just a little over a year ago when a reliable Wifi service finally reached our area. So it seems that this kind of Jumping Spider has been living on or around that tree for several years.
A few months ago, I had a conversation with another PN member, Francis Floe who has made a spotting of an identical spider and she explains in her notes that there is a population of them in her ornamental garden. Francis lives in Western Visayas which is hundreds of kilometres south of Zambales where I live. So, this Salticid seems to be. distributed over a wide area in the Philippines
Spotted on Feb 2, 2023
Submitted on Feb 3, 2023
2 Comments
Yes, jumping spiders are rather special. I often wonder what is going on behind those big eyes. John B.
These creatures always catch my attention, just watching them in their own mind, when they move around, analyzing their environment is mind-blowing.