Appearance
While the male is strikingly red on top, with a black band in the frontal eye region and sometimes with white setae on the forelegs, the female is of a rather inconspicuous brown color. It is one of the species of jumping spiders which are mimics of mutillid wasps; several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration, and possess a very painful sting.
Naming
The species name is possibly a reference to poet Walt Whitman.
Distribution
"P. whitmani" occurs in USA and Canada.References:
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