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These alpine jumping spiders never disappoint with their camouflage. In the Southern Alps, they are grey (see https://inaturalist.nz/observations/20903295), these ones in the Red Hills suit the red rocks perfectly. If you take your eye off them for a second to get the camera out, they are impossible to find again!

Tiny (~4mm) I believe this species is shown in Andrew Crowe's "Which New Zealand Spider" book as the undescribed "Cream jumping spider"..

While this doesn't have the pure white pedipalps that the one in Andrew's book does, it does have those two pronounced black spots in the red diamond on this spider's head - plus it is mentioned in Andrew's book that it was found Above Tairua on the Coromandel, this individual I found below Tairua.

Three obs showing three individuals of @robingrace's undescribed scree Salticid.
This one was the most obliging. Female adult??
Swear I saw something scuttle away that looked very similar but was MUCH larger... Then again, they're so well camouflaged that it's really hard to judge scale when they're on the move.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563065
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/104563064

Collected on 25 Jan while taking down malaise trap in KBU. Later moulted to ?maturity, as seen here.

Looks like "Trite mustilina" but revision of the group is about to begin so I'll leave it coarse.