| Evarcha striolata | |
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| A male found in Limpopo, South Africa, showing its stripy abdomen | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Salticidae |
| Subfamily: | Salticinae |
| Genus: | Evarcha |
| Species: | E. striolata
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| Binomial name | |
| Evarcha striolata Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009
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Evarcha striolata is a species of jumping spider in the genus Evarcha that lives in South Africa. The species was first described in 2009 by Wanda Wesołowska and Charles Haddad. The spider is medium-sized, with a dark orange or yellowish-orange carapace, the topside of its cephalothorax, measuring between 2.1 and 2.6 mm (0.08 and 0.10 in) in length and an abdomen that is between 2 and 2.5 mm (0.08 and 0.10 in) long. The male has a pattern of dark stripes on the top of its abdomen, which is recalled in the species name. The female is generally lighter and has indistinct lines formed of dots on both the top and bottom of its abdomen. The underside of cephalothorax, or sternum, in both the female and male is dark yellow. It can be distinguished from other species in the genus by its copulatory organs, particularly the shape of the male's palpal bulb and the female spermathecae, or receptacles at the end of its insemination ducts. These are also more similar to Asian and Australian spiders in the genus, which has led Jerzy Prószyński to suggest that it should be a member of a different genus named Evacin.