Eris militaris (Hentz, 1845)
bronze jumper
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FAMILY: SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 Genus: Eris C. L. Koch, 1846 Species: Eris militaris (Hentz, 1845)  |
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Common Names
Family Common Name:
jumping spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
bronze jumper
Point Collections & Seasonality
Global Distribution: USA, Canada, Alaska
Nearctic States & Provinces: 
AB QC CO ID MT NJ NC OK TX
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Seasonality
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Natural History & Image(s)
Feeding Guild:† stalkers
†Feeding guild when noted defined by Uetz, G. W., J. Halaj, and A. B. Cady. 1999. Guild structure of spiders in major crops. Journal of Arachnology 27:270-280. PDF
Habitat (published): (not yet published or unknown)
Habitat (<30 randomly chosen specimens): Mixedwood forest; apple orchard foliage; Black spruce/Ledum bog; Bog; Jackpine/sedge meadow; Meadow; Lake edge; Aspen; mixed deciduous forest foliage;
Life & Natural History: (not yet recorded or unknown)
Image(s) of Habitus:
Details About Males
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
| Male Dimensions: (Dimensions not yet available) |
Image of External Male Genitalia: Credit: Barnes, Jay |
Details About Females
Description: (not yet recorded or unknown)
| Female Dimensions: (Dimensions not yet available) |
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Synonyms and Chresonyms‡
Taxonomic References‡
Banks, N. 1892. The spider fauna of the Upper Cayuga Lake Basin. Proc. Acad. nat. Sci. Philad. 1892: 11-81.
Breene, R. G., D. A. Dean, M. Nyffeler & G. B. Edwards. 1993. Biology, Predation Ecology, and Significance of Spiders in Texas Cotton Ecosystems with a Key to Species. Texas Agriculture Experiment Station, College Station, 115 pp.
Cambridge, F. O. P.-. 1901. Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2: 193-312.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1925. New North American spiders. Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. (4) 14: 105-142.
Chamberlin, R. V. 1924. Descriptions of new American and Chinese spiders, with notes on other Chinese species. Proc. U. S. nat. Mus. 63(13): 1-38.
Chickering, A. M. 1944. The Salticidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 29: 139-222.
Comstock, J. H. 1912. The spider book; a manual for the study of the spiders and their near relatives, the scorpions, pseudoscorpions, whipscorpions, harvestmen and other members of the class Arachnida, found in America north of Mexico, with analytical keys for their classification and popular accounts of their habits. Garden City, New York, pp. 1-721
Crosby, C. R. & S. C. Bishop. 1928. Araneae. In A list of the insects of New York. Mem. Cornell Univ. Agr. Exp. Sta. 101: 1034-1074.
Emerton, J. H. 1909. Supplement to the New England Spiders. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 14: 171-236.
Emerton, J. H. 1902. The common spiders of the United States. Boston, pp. 1-225.
Emerton, J. H. 1891. New England spiders of the family Attidae. Trans. Connect. Acad. Arts Sci. 8: 220-252.
Hentz, N. M. 1845. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 189-202.
Kaston, B. J. 1973. Four new species of Metaphidippus, with notes on related jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the eastern and central United States. Trans. Am. microsc. Soc. 92: 106-122. 
Kaston, B. J. 1972. Some name changes in spiders. Ent. News 83: 105-106.
Kaston, B. J. 1948. Spiders of Connecticut. Bull. Conn. St. geol. nat. Hist. Surv. 70: 1-874.
Keyserling, E. 1885. Neue Spinnen aus America. VI. Verh. zool.-bot. Ges. Wien 34: 489-534.
Koch, C. L. 1846. Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Dreizehnter Band, pp. 1-234, Vierzehnter Band, pp. 1-88.
Maddison, W. 1986. Distinguishing the jumping spiders Eris militaris and Eris flava in North America (Araneae: Salticidae). Psyche, Camb. 93: 141-149. 
Maddison, W. P. 1996. Pelegrina Franganillo and other jumping spiders formerly placed in the genus Metaphidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv. 154: 215-368.
Muma, M. H. 1943. Common spiders of Maryland. Natural History Society of Maryland, Baltimore, 179 pp.
Oehler, C. M. 1980. Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Cincinnati region of Ohio, including Butler, Clermont, Hamilton, and Warren Counties. Ohio biol. Surv. biol. Notes 13: 1-36.
Paquin, P. & N. Dupérré. 2003. Guide d'identification des araignées de Québec. Fabreries, Suppl. 11 1-251.
Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1909. Revision of the Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Ac. Sci. Arts Let. 16(1): 355-655.
Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1888. Attidae of North America. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 7: 1-104.
Peckham, G. W. & E. G. Peckham. 1886. Genera of the family Attidae: with a partial synonymy. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 6: 255-342.
Petrunkevitch, A. 1911. A synonymic index-catalogue of spiders of North, Central and South America with all adjacent islands, Greeland, Bermuda, West Indies, Terra del Fuego, Galapagos, etc. Bull. Amer. Mus. Nat. Hist. 29: 1-791.
Prószynski, J. 1976. Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodzina Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyzsza Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260.
‡Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog
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