Otiosus jumping spider female

[TheQuietPoet28]

 

[egyptiancrow]

shes so cute! are her chelicerae pink though? if they are shes probably not a true otiosus

 

[Nicole C G]

Phidippus otiosus can have pink chelicerae

canopy jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus)

canopy jumping spider from Lake Harris, Leesburg, FL, US on November 26, 2021 at 02:06 PM by Ed Carter

www.inaturalist.org

But this observation was from Florida. Maybe a hybrid? So maybe they can’t?

I agree it doesn't look quite right for otiosus. OP do you have a view of the top of the spider?

 

[egyptiancrow]

Phidippus otiosus can have pink chelicerae

canopy jumping spider (Phidippus otiosus)

canopy jumping spider from Lake Harris, Leesburg, FL, US on November 26, 2021 at 02:06 PM by Ed Carter

www.inaturalist.org

But this observation was from Florida. Maybe a hybrid? So maybe they can’t?

I agree it doesn't look quite right for otiosus. OP do you have a view of the top of the spider?

thats a dark form otiosus which may or may not be from hybridization, im not sure how indepth the study is yet. but yes, they dont normally, not as a juvie and not as a pure otiosus. hybrids are common in florida, according to my fellow breeders over there.

 

[TheQuietPoet28]

I do know she's a otiosus.

 

[egyptiancrow]

I do know she's a otiosus.

so her chelicerae arent pink, is it just the lighting?
did you find her outside?

 

[TheQuietPoet28]

No bought her from a breeder but shes not regal i do know that.

 

[egyptiancrow]

No bought her from a breeder but shes not regal i do know that.

she is most likely a hybrid, but shes not a pure otiosus, shes a otiosus and regius hybrid. i literally just alerted morphmarket to someone selling "otiosus" but they were hybrids. turned out her supplier mislabeled it and she never double checked. she refunded everyone who got one. I presume that supplier also misleads other people as well bc of the wrong species label. unfortunately its a common problem. but i know ....30 breeders in the us and not one has had any adoptable otiosus for 7ish months. unless youre in the uk, where breeding otiosus is a litttle more consistant