Salticidae Psenuc

Psenuc nuclearis (Prószyński, 1992)

Saw-lined Braille Jumper

The dark-coloured body of the male is covered with long and appressed (flattened) white setae, leaving only a pair of blackish brown parallel bands over the carapace, and a median serrated (saw-like) band over the abdomen. The white setae on the body are easily rubbed off, thereby revealing the darkly coloured integument of the carapace. [See page xxx for a frontal view of a male.] There is a rarer morph (body form) of this species whose body is covered almost entirely by white setae, interspersed with some orangish and brown setae as shown in the upper right picture.