Superfamily Argiopoidea 



DD. Abdomen red, or red banded with black. 

 E. Abdomen banded with black. P. 683. 



P. clarus 

 EE. Abdomen uniform red. P. 683. 



P. insolens (in part) 

 BB. Females. 



C. Cephalic plate with two black patches between which 

 the colour is orange or red; abdomen with seven 

 spots red, edged with black. P. 684. P. mineatus 

 CC. Markings unlike those of P. mineatus 

 D. Abdomen marked with black. 



E. Abdomen with two black bands. P. 683. 



P. clarus 

 EE. Abdomen with one black band. P. 683. 



P. insolens (in part) 

 DD. Abdomen all red. 



E. Cephalic plate with a bare black region back of 

 first row of eyes. P. 682. P. whitmanii 



EE. Cephalic plate all red. P. 683. 



P. insolens (in part) 

 AA. Abdomen neither red nor marked with red. 

 B. Abdomen black marked with white. 

 C. Cephalothorax dark, distinctly marked with white. 

 P. 682. P. variegatus 



CC. Cephalothorax all black. P. 681. P. audax 



BB. Abdomen brown or gray and spotted. 



C. Cephalic plate with a transverse row of white spots. 

 P. 684. P. mystaceus 



CC. Cephalic plate without a row of white spots. P. 683. 



P. purpuratus 



Phidippus audax (P. au'dax).— - The cephalothorax and 

 abdomen are black with many long white hairs. I he abdomen 

 is marked by a white basal band, a large more or less triangular 

 central white spot, behind which are two pairs of white bars. In 

 front of the large white spot is a pair of indistinct white spots, 

 in some individuals there are traces of oblique lateral stripes (Fig. 

 753). In the middle of the back, behind the large white spot. 

 there is a metallic band. 



This is a common and widely distributed species throughout 



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