Sea-green northern jumper
Cosmophasis thalassina
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The sea-green northern jumper is a jumping spider that shines like metal. Its front part is covered in greenish bronze and copper hairs. Depending on how the light falls, it can even look yellow.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From Malaysia to Australia, also in gardens and parks in Queensland
What does it eat?
It eats ants.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Sea-green northern jumper about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its shiny colour does not come from paint-like colour but from tiny patterns on its body that bend the light.
2
People probably carried it by accident to the gardens and parks of Queensland in Australia.
3
Its dark tummy has a white collar at the front that runs along both sides.
you asked
Most asked questions about Sea-green northern jumper
?What does the sea-green northern jumper eat?
It eats ants.
?Why does the sea-green northern jumper shine?
Tiny patterns on its hairs bend the light, which makes it shine like metal.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cosmophasis thalassina
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cosmophasis thalassina (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Niki Hubbard. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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