Fighting spider
The fighting spider is a small jumping spider from East Asia. Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes at the front and hunts by leaping onto its prey. In this kind the females are a little bigger than the males.
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Fun facts
It has been found in Japan, China and Vietnam. People also carried it by accident to Hawaii.
The very first spiders scientists studied were collected in a Chinese city that is now called Shantou.
Those first spiders were kept in a museum in Germany, but they were destroyed in 1944 during a war.
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?How big is a fighting spider?
About 7 to 9 millimetres long. The females are a little bigger than the males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thiania suboppressa
- Named by
- Strand, 1907
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Thiania suboppressa (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 Lawrence Hylton. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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