Bumblebee jumper
Pystira ephippigera
Name means: “ephippigera comes from Greek and means saddle-bearing, because of the saddle-shaped mark on its back end”
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The bumblebee jumper is a small jumping spider from Southeast Asia. Its front part is shiny black, and its pale back end has a big dark mark shaped like a saddle. Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes and pounces on its food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Sumatra in Indonesia, and also Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia
What does it eat?
It sneaks up on small insects and jumps on them, like other jumping spiders.
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)
Bumblebee jumper about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It was first described in 1885 from spiders collected on the island of Sumatra.
2
Scientists have moved it from one genus to another several times, and it has had four different scientific names.
3
Its legs are pale yellow, short and strong.
4
It is the main example species for its whole genus, Pystira.
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Most asked questions about Bumblebee jumper
?Where does the bumblebee jumper live?
In Southeast Asia: Sumatra, peninsular Malaysia, Thailand and Cambodia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pystira ephippigera
- Named by
- Simon, 1885
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Pystira ephippigera (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 Gee. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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