Read Our Paper About First Pseudueophrys lanigera Records In North America

Female Pseudeuophrys lanigera on
building exterior in Seattle, Washington

Readers of this blog will recall that in 2015 I discovered the European jumping spider Pseudeuophrys lanigera in some fallen pine cones in Mukilteo, Washington (Snohomish County). This constituted the first record of the species in North America. Subsequently I and others found more specimens in the Washington cities of Seattle (King County) and Bremerton (Kitsap County). Rod Crawford and I summarized these findings in a paper in Pan-Pacific Entomologist which can be accessed here free of charge.