Description: First of all, I apologize for the blown orange hairs, I had to salvage this image from a pretty underexposed photo. Found this little one (~3-4mm) on an outside window sill. I'm not at all familiar with this genus, and at the time of writing this, I don't know the species or even the gender. A nice looking spider, the colorations and patterns of scales are great. The palps have some interesting hairs as well. Taken at ~7:1 with the 28mm reversed to the bellows at f/5.6. EDIT (11/6/08): I contacted
Wayne Maddison about this spider, as I couldn't find an entry for it on bugguide.net. He identified it as a female Sitticus fasciger. For an interesting paper on this species, see
2.0.CO;2-1 here. Pretty exciting stuff, this is a whole new genus for me, and an interesting spider as well. Looks as though they first came to the US in the late 1950's. Date: 27 May 2005, 03:52. Source:
Sitticus fasciger Jumping Spider. Author:
Opo Terser (Thomas Shahan). Camera location
35° 11′ 30.42″ N, 97° 27′ 03.61″ W View all coordinates using:
OpenStreetMap 35.191784; -97.451004.