Euophrys bifida

The cephalothorax has a brown carapace, or topside, while the abdomen is marked by a mosaic pattern of dark patches on a light background.

Euophrys bifida is a species of jumping spider that was first described by the arachnologists Wanda Wesołowska Galina Azarkina and Anthony Russell-Smith in 2014.

[2] It was one of over 500 species identified by Wesołowska during her career, more than any other contemporary writer and second only to the French arachnologist Eugène Simon.

[4] The species is named for the shape of the spider's back tooth, which are bifid, or cleft into two spikes.

[6] In Wayne Maddison's 2015 study of spider phylogenetic classification, it was listed to the tribe Euophryini.

[12] Euophrys bifida is a small spider with a body divided into two main parts: a rectangular cephalothorax and thinner, more oval abdomen.

The carapace, the hard upper part of the cephalothorax, is a moderately high oval that is mainly dark brown with some short colourless hairs.

It is dark with a mosaic pattern of very small blackish-brown plates and two thin yellowish-orange lines from front to back.

There is a small thin curled embolus attached to the top that projects outwards and lines up with the large cymbium that surrounds the outside of the bulb.

The palpal tibia is blunt and has a relatively long erect protrusion, or tibial apophysis, that has a pointed tip.

The male's palpal bulb is particularly similar to the related Euophrys purcelli, but the embolic coil has a larger diameter and the shape of the tibial apophysis is different.