BobCsAll (his username here) has a great name for these platycryptus species - The "monkey-faced jumping spider." She does have a monkeylike face! I got her as a freebie from a container purchase along with Phidippus audax slings. Measures over 10mm. She seems to have problems climbing the walls of her container but not the fake plants... Add annotation? www.youtube.com ... platycryptus species jumping spider salticidae arachnid arthropod insects and bugs cute critter keeper animals pets ...

My wife, brother and I encountered this huge, very strange insect on my father's porch in Fredericksburg, Texas. It was almost midnight, and we'd had a few beers, but it turned out to be real anyway!