{"id":33440,"date":"2022-12-16T21:22:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=33440"},"modified":"2022-12-16T21:22:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-17T02:22:24","slug":"do-you-know-this-spider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2022\/12\/do-you-know-this-spider\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you know this spider?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief video clip here, that I captured while after other subjects back in September &#8211; I didn&#8217;t take any still photos and the spider was in view for only a minute, so this is all I have to identify it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/782001784?h=e43b8aa20a\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>My own search through BugGuide&#8217;s photos turned up nothing that looked like a good match, and I haven&#8217;t tried contacting them to find out if there&#8217;s a way to show them this video. The closest two species that I found are<strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2038\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Paraphidippus aurantius<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bugguide.net\/node\/view\/2027\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Pelegrina galathea<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Neither of these seems correct, judging from both the pattern on the abdomen and the coloration of the forelegs<strong>;<\/strong> the average size of <em>P. galathea<\/em> also seems way too small. This was perhaps the largest jumping spider species that I&#8217;ve ever seen, and there was a noticeable tap when it landed on my arm<strong>;<\/strong> where it jumped <em>from<\/em> to get there, I can&#8217;t say, but I&#8217;d been sitting in the grass waiting for anoles to do something interesting, so it probably launched itself from my shoulder or thereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any suggestions, or better yet a positive ID, you can comment here or reach me through the <a href=\"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/contact\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Contact Page<\/a>, and I&#8217;ll update this post. Kindly don&#8217;t tell me that it&#8217;s an extremely rare species that you would have paid big bucks for &#8211; I&#8217;ve been having a good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a brief video clip here, that I captured while after other subjects back in September &#8211; I didn&#8217;t take any still photos and the spider was in view for only a minute, so this is all I have to identify it. My own search through BugGuide&#8217;s photos turned up nothing that looked like a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,3809],"tags":[7021,636,7020],"class_list":["post-33440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","category-video","tag-ill-sell-you-the-video-clip-though","tag-jumping-spider","tag-unidentified-spider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}