Injured Veteran - _TNY_9896
I had a really hard time identifying this jumping spider from the Nackareservatet nature reserve as it was so old and worn that most of the scales on it were missing. And on top of that, three legs plus one pedipalp is missing.
It does however have extremely large chelicerae (the parts with the fangs) which means it must be a species in the Salticus genus as those are the only ones that have those in Sweden. which narrows it down to three species and size wise plus the predominant black colouration makes me think this is a *very* old male zebra spider (Salticus scenicus).
Injured Veteran - _TNY_9896
I had a really hard time identifying this jumping spider from the Nackareservatet nature reserve as it was so old and worn that most of the scales on it were missing. And on top of that, three legs plus one pedipalp is missing.
It does however have extremely large chelicerae (the parts with the fangs) which means it must be a species in the Salticus genus as those are the only ones that have those in Sweden. which narrows it down to three species and size wise plus the predominant black colouration makes me think this is a *very* old male zebra spider (Salticus scenicus).