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fozzi Blairstown, NJ Apr 19, 2010

This spider is small, maybe 3/8 inch.

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fozzi Blairstown, NJ Apr 19, 2010

Here is a front view

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suunto Sinks Grove, WV Apr 19, 2010

This is a jumping spider (family Salticidae), apparently in the genus Phidippus; it looks a bit like Phidippus princeps - see http://tinyurl.com/y2cmffs for an example - but these spiders can show enough variation in color patterns to make positive identification from an image problematic.

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fozzi Blairstown, NJ Apr 20, 2010

Thank you, Suunto, for your help.

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