 Sometimes, the basic color is orange rather than red, and very old spiders may even be yellow.In this species, the adult males and the adult females are similar in coloration, and this is also true of "P. apacheanus".It is more usual for the males of "Phidippus" to have iridescent chelicerae and a distinctive adult coloration while the females of this genus remain similar to the immature spiders (e.g., "P. clarus", "P. octopunctatus", "P. whitmani").