North Queensland jumping spider
Cosmophasis micarioides
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The North Queensland jumping spider is a tiny jumping spider that sparkles in the sun. The boy is black with shiny blue green bands. When he moves, he bobs his body up and down, and the sunlight makes him glitter.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Tropical Australia south to Brisbane, Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands
Length
5 to 6.5 mm (0.2 to 0.26 in)
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it sneaks up on small insects and jumps on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.3 seconds⚡moves 35 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
North Queensland jumping spider about 0.83 km/h (0.52 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The girl looks quite different: she is orange brown with bands of green and brown.
2
Unlike most spiders, the boy is a little bigger than the girl.
3
It is common in tropical Australia.
4
Young boys have orange where grown-up boys are black.
you asked
Most asked questions about North Queensland jumping spider
?Why does the North Queensland jumping spider sparkle?
The boy has shiny blue green bands, and when he bobs his body, they reflect the sunlight.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cosmophasis micarioides
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Sparkling northern jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Cosmophasis micarioides (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 Summerdrought. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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