The Nearctic Spider Database, http://www.canadianarachnology.org/data/spiders/35446
Phidippus clarus Keyserling, 1885
FAMILY: SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841
Genus: Phidippus C. L. Koch, 1846
Species: Phidippus clarus Keyserling, 1885
Common Names
Family Common Name:
jumping spiders
Genus Common Name:
none
Species Common Name:
none
Distribution
Global Distribution: North America
Nearctic States & Provinces:
CO IL OK OR SC
Collection Locales Mapped by Year Collected:
Natural History, Phenology & 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.
Recorded Habitats:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Life & Natural History:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Seasonality of Specimen Records:
Image(s) of Habitus:

Credit: Murray, Tom

Credit: Murray, Tom
Details About Males
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of External Male Genitalia:
(image not yet available)
Details About Females
Description:
(not yet recorded or unknown)
Image of Epigynum:
(image not yet available)
Synonyms and Chresonyms†
| Attus podagrosus Hentz 1846 |
| Phidippus testaceus C. L. Koch 1846 |
| Phidippus coloradensis Thorell 1877 |
| Attus flavus Peckham & Peckham 1883 |
| Phidippus clarus Keyserling 1885 |
| Phidippus insolens Peckham & Peckham 1888 |
| Phidippus multiformis Emerton 1891 |
| Phidippus minutus Banks 1892 |
| Philaeus princeps Banks 1892 |
| Dendryphantes multiformis Simon 1901 |
| Phidippus bilineatus Tullgren 1901 |
| Phidippus clarconensis Tullgren 1901 |
| Phidippus coloradensis Peckham & Peckham 1901 |
| Phidippus multiformis Emerton 1902 |
| Phidippus clarus Peckham & Peckham 1909 |
| Dendryphantes bilineatus Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Dendryphantes clarus Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Dendryphantes coloradensis Petrunkevitch 1911 |
| Phidippus clarus Muma 1943 |
| Phidippus clarus Chickering 1944 |
| Phidippus clarus Kaston 1948 |
| Phidippus clarus Wallace 1950 |
| Phidippus clarus Prószynski 1971 |
| Phidippus clarus Richman & Cutler 1978 |
| Phidippus clarus Oehler 1980 |
| Phidippus clarus Breene et al. 1993 |
| Phidippus clarus Paquin & Dupérré 2003 |
| Phidippus clarus Edwards 2004 |
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.
Chickering, A. M. 1944. The Salticidae of Michigan. Pap. Michig. Acad. Sci. 29: 139-222.
Edwards, G. B. 2004. Revision of the jumping spiders of the genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Occas. Pap. Florida State Collect. Arthropods 11 1-156.
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. 1846. Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston J. nat. Hist. 5: 352-370.
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.
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. 1901. Spiders of the Phidippus group of the family Attidae. Trans. Wiscons. Acad. Sci. Arts Let. 13: 282-358.
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. 1883. Descriptions of new or little known spiders of the family Attidae from various parts of the United States of North America. Milwaukee, pp. 1-35.
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. 1971. Catalogue of Salticidae (Aranei) specimens kept in major collections of the world. Annls zool. Warsz. 28: 367-519.
Richman, D. B. & B. Cutler. 1978. A list of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the United States and Canada. Peckhamia 1: 82-110.
Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 2: 381-668.
Thorell, T. 1877. Descriptions of the Araneae collected in Colorado in 1875, by A. S. Packard jun., M.D. Bull. U. S. geol. Surv. 3: 477-529.
Tullgren, A. 1901. On the spiders collected in Florida by Dr Einer Lönnberg 1892-93. Bih. Svenska Vet.-Akad. Handl. 27(4;1): 1-29.
Wallace, H. K. 1950. On Tullgren's Florida Spiders. Florida Ent. 33: 71-83.
†Nomenclature and taxonomic references from the World Spider Catalog accessible at http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/SALTICIDAE.html
Other Nearctic Members of Genus Phidippus C. L. Koch, 1846‡‡
P. adumbratus Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA
P. apacheanus Chamberlin & Gertsch, 1929 ...............USA, Mexico, Cuba
P. ardens Peckham & Peckham, 1901 ...............USA, Mexico
P. arizonensis (Peckham & Peckham, 1883) ...............USA, Mexico
P. asotus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1933 ...............USA, Mexico
P. audax (Hentz, 1845) ...............North America, intorduced in Hawaii, Nicobar Is.
P. aureus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. bidentatus F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1901 ...............USA to Costa Rica
P. boei Edwards, 2004 ...............USA, Mexico
P. borealis Banks, 1895 ...............USA, Canada, Alaska
P. californicus Peckham & Peckham, 1901 ...............North America
P. cardinalis (Hentz, 1845) ...............USA, Mexico, possibly Panama
P. carneus Peckham & Peckham, 1896 ...............USA, Mexico
P. carolinensis Peckham & Peckham, 1909 ...............USA, Mexico
P. comatus Peckham & Peckham, 1901 ...............North America
P. concinnus Gertsch, 1934 ...............USA
P. cryptus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA, Canada
P. felinus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. insignarius C. L. Koch, 1846 ...............USA
P. johnsoni (Peckham & Peckham, 1883) ...............North America
P. kastoni Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. lynceus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. morpheus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA, Mexico
P. mystaceus (Hentz, 1846) ...............USA
P. nikites Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 ...............USA, Mexico
P. octopunctatus (Peckham & Peckham, 1883) ...............USA, Mexico
P. olympus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. otiosus (Hentz, 1846) ...............USA
P. phoenix Edwards, 2004 ...............USA, Mexico
P. pius Scheffer, 1905 ...............USA to Costa Rica
P. princeps (Peckham & Peckham, 1883) ...............USA, Canada
P. pruinosus Peckham & Peckham, 1909 ...............USA
P. pulcherrimus Keyserling, 1885 ...............USA
P. purpuratus Keyserling, 1885 ...............USA, Canada
P. putnami (Peckham & Peckham, 1883) ...............USA
P. regius C. L. Koch, 1846 ...............USA, West Indies, Easter Island (introduced)
P. richmani Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. texanus Banks, 1906 ...............USA, Mexico
P. tigris Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. toro Edwards, 1978 ...............USA, Mexico
P. tux Pinter, 1970 ...............USA, Mexico
P. tyrannus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA, Mexico
P. tyrrelli Peckham & Peckham, 1901 ...............North America
P. ursulus Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. vexans Edwards, 2004 ...............USA
P. whitmani Peckham & Peckham, 1909 ...............USA, Canada
P. workmani Peckham & Peckham, 1901 ...............USA
‡‡May also include species with Palearctic distribution