Jumping Spider - Phidippus clarus

Jumping Spider - Phidippus clarus
Family: Salticidae
Live adult spiders photographed at Winfield, DuPage County IL and Lake Crabtree Co. Park, Wake County, North Carolina.

Large male 10mm

Female with ambush bug prey

Female

Small male 6mm

This is a large male jumping spider: 10mm. You can actually see the moveable retina in this spider's eyes.
Jumping spiders don't move their eyeballs like we do, they move the retina inside the eye.
Jumping spiders in the genus Phidippus have iridescent green chelicerae.

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