Downy jumping spider
Attulus pubescens
The downy jumping spider is a tiny dark spider with white spots and stripes. It does not wait in a web. It walks around on walls and fences and jumps onto its prey.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe, North Africa and western Asia, and now also the United States, on walls, fences and in houses
Length
4 to 5 mm (0.16 to 0.2 in)
females are a little bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It hunts small insects. It sneaks up close and then pounces.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.9 seconds⚡moves 41 times its own body length every second
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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)
Downy jumping spider about 0.73 km/h (0.45 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It likes to live near people. You can find it on house walls, on fences and sometimes even inside the house.
2
Away from houses it hides under stones and runs along tree trunks.
3
Until 2017 scientists called it by a different name, Sitticus pubescens.
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Most asked questions about Downy jumping spider
?Where does the downy jumping spider live?
In Europe, North Africa and western Asia, often on house walls and fences. It was also brought to the United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Attulus pubescens
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Attulus pubescens (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 AJC1. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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