Beefy jumper
Reid0210

Beefy jumper

Just caught this beast in my backyard...someone want to identify?
Looks like a male Phidippus johnsoni, one of the largest and most commonly encountered jumping spiders of western North America. If you also check there chelicerae have a teal coloration to them.
 
How can you tell it's a male? It looks like palpal bulbs on the pedipalps but it's just the way they are curled on the photo. Just wondering cause I have a ton of jumpers here but they all are grey and brown colored..didn't know if the color was that much different on the males
 

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samsung SAMSUNG-SM-N920A
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ƒ/1.9
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4.3 mm
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1/24
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125
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20160502_121323.jpg
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Mon, 02 May 2016 12:13 PM
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