Ant-eater jumping spider
The ant-eater jumping spider is a small dark brown or black spider with pale stripes on its legs. On its back it has a round pattern with a dot in the middle, like a tiny target. It does not build a web to catch food. Instead it sneaks up on ants and pounces.
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It grows to about 8 millimetres long, about as big as a pea.
It has a pale band on every one of its eight legs.
When scientists first named it in 1881, they put it in a different group and called it Hasarius orbiculatus.
Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes at the front of its head to spot its prey.
Most asked questions about Ant-eater jumping spider
?What does the ant-eater jumping spider eat?
Mostly ants, and also other spiders and insects.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Zenodorus orbiculatus
- Named by
- Keyserling, 1881
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Round ant eater
Where the facts come from
- Zenodorus orbiculatus (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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