It did not resemble the long jawed ant mimic I posted a week ago. It looked like an ordinary ant with funny looking antennae poking through the side of its head. I normally would have just ignored it but What gave it away was that it jumped. I instantly knew this was another ant mimic.
I followed it as it went about its business and found out that the telling sign is not that it jumped; because it did it only twice. It was the fact that it moved its thorax (rear end) up and down while it was walking which was not a normal thing for small black ants. It moved a bit faster than most ants and didn't seem to follow the straight lines that ants usually take.
I got only a few useable photos because the spider was really small. Here are my photos of this Ant Mimic Jumping Spider.
I got lucky again last weekend and found a few more. I will post them when I have the time.
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