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red spider has a pair of very large eyes - jumper of some sort? Geotagged,Spring,United States Click/tap to enlarge

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has a pair of very large eyes - jumper of some sort?

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  1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
    Ferdy Christant
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    Could be, although most jumping spiders seem to have thicker, more hairy legs. If I'm interpreting the photo correctly, it seems the forward eyes are large, yet also relatively far apart. Can you confirm?

    https://www.flickr.com/photos/panbasket/30956707831     Posted 2 years ago
    1. View morpheme's profile
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      Hmmmm - I do have a photo of the face.. I never seem to be able to match them up well, but I'd have to say the eye arrangement looks most like a wolf spider. There appear to be two large forward facing eyes, 2 large backward facing eyes and at least 4 smaller ones below the forward facing eyes.. Posted 2 years ago, modified 2 years ago
      1. View Ferdy Christant's profile
        Ferdy Christant
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        Yes, wolf spider is the direction I was thinking in. Example of a European species where you can see the eye arrangement:
        https://www.jungledragon.com/specie/22877/photos         Posted 2 years ago
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        Ferdy Christant
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        Pardosa saltans, Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands My first hike of the season, after a winter break that seemed to take forever. This particular clearing in a forest I regularly visit is always crawling with small wolf spiders on the forest floor. Hundreds of them. They're very fast, the only way to photograph them is to anticipate their direction of flight. Yet the leaf litter on the floor doesn't help, it's like announcing an earthquake each time I try to sneek upon them.<br /> <br /> I always assumed all of them to be the same species. At least in the Pardosa genus, which is a giant genus of hard to identify spiders. This black-and-white striped one seemed distinct enough for identification, and I managed to match it to an ID. <br /> <br /> In dutch it has the beautiful name Zwarthandboswolfspin (black hand forest wolf spider). This is the male, females have a yellow stripe instead of white.<br /> <br /> Should you desire a little more detail: I managed to catch one and took it home for extreme macro stacking. Will take a while to get to it in the set but I can at least say they're super creepy when magnified.<br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/93912/pardosa_saltans_-_habitat_heeswijk-dinther_netherlands.html<br /> Female found a few minutes later:<br /> <br /> https://www.jungledragon.com/image/93913/pardosa_saltans_-_female_heeswijk-dinther_netherlands.html Europe,Heeswijk-Dinther,Netherlands,Pardosa saltans,World

        Note the thin spiked legs.         Posted 2 years ago, modified 2 years ago

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Uploaded May 19, 2023. Captured May 18, 2023 13:24 in 21200 Russell Rd, Kent, WA 98032, USA.
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