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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
steve_kerrDescription
genus Euophrys ?
This one was jumping amongst the rocks, streamside.
I have seen this species on my property here in Dunedin many times, but never in "the wild".
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Sheetweb Spiders (Genus Cambridgea)Observer
invertebratistPlace
Otatara Scenic Reserve, Otatara, Invercargill, Southland, South Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Native mixed podocarp / broadleaf forest, resting on a tree trunk at night.
With cute juveniles!!!
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
jtweedDescription
Beaten from shrubland vegetation.
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Typical Jumping Spiders (Subfamily Salticinae)Observer
robingraceDescription
~10mm long
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Typical Jumping Spiders (Subfamily Salticinae)Observer
invertebratistPlace
Ecology Trail, Tāwharanui Peninsula, Rodney, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
iNatting with @emma_brockes.
Native bush, under a damp decomposing wood.
Probably undescribed.
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Raukawa Gecko (Woodworthia maculata)Observer
bugman-nzDescription
On bark of pine tree shortly after shedding skin
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
just the one spotted (by chance!)
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Hinewaia embolicaObserver
jtweedDescription
Found on mossy tree trunk during the day.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
jtweedDescription
Common in retreats under rimu bark.
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Golden-brown Jumping Spider (Trite auricoma)Observer
p_rhodesDescription
Any ID for this hunting spider?
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
jtweedDescription
Found on rock tors above the bushline.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
jtweedDescription
Common under rocks on rock tors in the (sub-)alpine zones.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Atypically-patterned subadult male Opisthoncus, or something else??
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Atypically-patterned subadult male Opisthoncus, or something else??
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Adoxotoma forsteriObserver
bytheparkDescription
With a small leafhopper type bug.
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Adoxotoma forsteriObserver
bytheparkDescription
Oh great, a spider with two scary faces :-0
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Three obs showing three individuals of @robingrace's undescribed scree Salticid.
This one was the most obliging. Female adult??
Swear I saw something scuttle away that looked very similar but was MUCH larger... Then again, they're so well camouflaged that it's really hard to judge scale when they're on the move.
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563065
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563064
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
bytheparkDescription
Courtyard. S wall.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
crellowDescription
On Fraxinus sp.
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Adoxotoma forsteriObserver
bytheparkPlace
Park Tce near Chester St W, Christchurch Central City, Christchurch 8013, New Zealand (Google, OSM)Description
Found on BBQ cover.
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White Banded House Jumper (Maratus griseus)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Two males going at it!
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
crellowDescription
Cyclops jumping spider?
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Collected on 25 Jan while taking down malaise trap in KBU. Later moulted to ?maturity, as seen here.
Looks like "Trite mustilina" but revision of the group is about to begin so I'll leave it coarse.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Berlese-Tullgren funnel litter sample from under old Discaria in fenced area with long grass, remnant old kowhai, muehlenbeckia, etc.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
dustinlamontDescription
Undescribed Trite group.
Malaise trap in kiwi breeding unit — small cultivated native bush area with consistent irrigation applied. Set 25 Nov, retrieved 19 Jan.
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Fringed Peacock Spider (Maratus fimbriatus)Observer
lazDescription
Male displaying
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Poaka graminicolaObserver
dustinlamontDescription
Under cover of pitfall trap in small planted native bush section.
Note the distinctive paired macrosetae on underside of the first two legs.
They caught my eye (recently seen on my nearby ?Toxopsoides observations) and made me look for similar features in other taxa. Superfamily Dictynoidea shows a wide range of form and function but those leg spines are common among quite a few species.
Two cryptic Dictynoid species have showed up in one area now...
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
juanitamilnDescription
Approx. 15mm long, hanging out on the underside of a large rock at about 1400m.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
jacoblDescription
Found in alpine meadow, above the tree line.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
mark2-nzDescription
Very common along the whole Lockettt Range
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
mark2-nzDescription
I suspect this is another observation of the undescribed alpine salticid that has been observed from Arthurs Pass to Marlborough. On the slopes of Mt Benson, where it was uncommon (one seen in an hour)- another jumping spider was much more common than this one. See https://inaturalist.nz/observations/104429072
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Little Humped Spider (Philoponella congregabilis)Observer
grahameDescription
I've been watching these spiders for a while.
I'd guessed the leafy bits that appeared were eggs.
Finally one has hatched.
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Golden-brown Jumping Spider (Trite auricoma)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Again long after dark. Lots of Golden/Brown jumpers out hunting and doing what other jumpers do in the day!
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
mark2-nzDescription
Common on large boulders
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
katiejDescription
Looks like I interrupted lunch!
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Spiders (Order Araneae)Observer
sebastiandoakDescription
Several on the tree very small.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Bake bean jumpers male and females.
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Golden-brown Jumping Spider (Trite auricoma)Observer
paddy18Description
its eating a jumping spider! shows you the size of it
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Females, one being pregnant. Females are about 3.5mm being elongated and rather flat and paler in colour to males.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Male, some what smaller than females about 3mm. Also much darker. Very common at this location, one of the more common jumpers that we have. I have seen very similar jumpers on web sites from Australia USA.
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Jumping Spiders (Family Salticidae)Observer
flossiepipDescription
Tiny male. Males are about 1.8mm so always a delight to find one, which is not to often so could be rather rare. Like all of these tiny jumpers they seem to like areas of native bush, dark and damp. Females are a little larger at about 2mm and dont have the white mustache.
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Genus TriteObserver
flossiepipDescription
Young male. Been looking for one of these for some time. Plenty of females and very young ones about but first male I have seen in a long time. About fully grown at about 4 1/2 mm and has the dark face but has not got its 3/4 length dark brown front legs yet.
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Genus TriteObserver
flossiepipDescription
Thought I would put a couple more images up. Very common in our garden, this being a male. Males being somewhat darker, front legs, face abdomen!
