Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Phidippus  C. L. Koch, 1846   4 species

Phidippus audax (Hentz, 1845)

Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Canada, USA, Mexico. Introduced to Hawaii, Azores, India (Nicobar Is.)
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Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1971) ||| Netherlands   (Noordijk et al., 2016) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Edwards G B (2004) Revision of the jumping spiders of the genus Phidippus (Araneae: Salticidae). Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods 11: 1-156 pdf

Kaston BJ (1948) Spiders of Connecticut. Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

Noordijk J, Brooks M, Heijerman T (2016) Een import van de springspin Phidippus audax (Araneae: Salticidae) in Nederland [An import of the jumping spider Phidippus audax (Araneae: Salticidae) in the Netherlands]. Entomologische Berichten 76: 146-148 pdf

Schmidt G (1971) Mit Bananen eingeschleppte Spinnen. Zoologische Beiträge (N.F.) 17: 387-433 pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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