Jovial Jumping Spider: S2, ventral

Jovial Jumping Spider (Apricia jovialis)

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Jointed Legs (Arthropoda) - Spiders, Scorpions, Mites & Ticks (Arachnida)

Order:

Spiders (Araneae)

Family:

Jumping Spider (Salticidae) iNaturalist Observation

Species:

Jovial Jumping Spider (Apricia jovialis)

This Photo:

S2, ventral

Synonyms:

Breda jovialis or Ocrisiona jovialis

Thank you Tony and Jenny Dominelli & Karen Weaving for confirming the id of this species for us

General Species Information:
Found on Ellura (in the Murray Mallee, SA), the Adelaide Hills and elsewhere
Females are from ~5mm to ~7mm long.
It seems the typical orange band on the can be almost non-existant, or very strong.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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