Talk:Phidippus audax

message: Hentz, N. M. (1845). "Descriptions and figures of the Araneides of the United States". Boston Journal of Natural History. Volume 5: p.199.
:ATTUS AUDAX.
:Plate XVII. Fig 6, 7.
:Description. Black; abdomen with a spot, several dots and lines, white; cheliceres brassy green; feet with gray and white hairs, 1. 4. 2. 3.
:Observations. There is some obscurity in regard to the distinction between this and A. 3 punctatus, but there can be little doubt that there are two different species. This spider is very bold, often jumping on the hand which threatens it.
:Habitat. Massachusetts.
The text "feet, 1. 4. 2. 3." is a ranking of the legs by length, starting with the anterior pair. Kaldari (talk) 06:54, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original description 

message: It's interesting the distribution map does not include the Portland, OR/Vancouver, WA metro area in the range of P. audax as this extremely distinctive spider is quite common here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.27.251.63 (talk) 20:37, 25 June 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It appears that the range map is based on a similar one in Edwards 2004, which in turn is probably based on surveys and collection records from  various entomological collections. If you know of any reliable sources mentioning P. audax in other areas, please list them here. Kaldari (talk) 06:56, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Years later this hasn't been fixed. This species' range includes all of the west coast. There is no way that map was actually made based "surveys and collection records." That's just a bogus map. This is the most common jumping spider on the west coast. https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/53809-Phidippus-audax#map-tab 71.63.160.210 (talk) 18:22, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range map 

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message: No one caught this? It is absolutely not known as the "Big Jump Crazy Spider", however entertaining the description.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:985:300:55AF:984E:EC45:E1FB:F0EA (talk) 19:07, 11 July 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Big Jump Crazy Spider 

message: The map suggests that they have a very odd distribution where they're in the whole eastern part of the country including half the great basin, but then absent from the west coast except San Diego and Seattle. It is absurd, because it doesn't even follow ecological zones where the main line is, and in reality they're common all over the west coast including Oregon.71.63.160.210 (talk) 00:34, 2 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Map wrong 

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