Biology:Habronattus viridipes
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Short description: Species of spider
| Habronattus viridipes | |
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| Male from Kenedy County, Texas | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Habronattus |
| Species: | H. viridipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Habronattus viridipes (Hentz, 1846)
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Habronattus viridipes is a species of jumping spider that can be found in the eastern United States (west to Minnesota and Texas) and southern Canada .[1]
Description
The species are brownish-black, and have a size of 5.5 millimetres (0.22 in). Its front legs are green.
Adult male side
Leg 3 ornamentation
Adult male dorsal
Ecology
The males attract females by doing a "dance", and showing them their green front legs. If the female likes the dance, they will start to mate.[2]
References
- ↑ Griswold, Charles E. (1987). "A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F. O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae; Salticidae), with Phenetic and Cladistic Analyses". University of California Publications in Entomology 107: 135–137.
- ↑ Dance ritual video
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q2227427 entry
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