Heavy-bodied jumper
The heavy-bodied jumper is a chunky jumping spider from South Asia. Like all jumping spiders it has big eyes and pounces on its food instead of catching it in a web. It builds a thick little silk tent under a leaf to rest in.
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Fun facts
It makes an oval silk sac on the underside of leaves, for example on coconut palm leaves.
In the daytime the silk sac is empty. At night the male sleeps inside, and sometimes the female does too.
Like with most spiders, the female is a bit bigger than the male.
It is brave enough to catch bees.
Most asked questions about Heavy-bodied jumper
?What does the heavy-bodied jumper eat?
Small insects such as grasshoppers, flies and bees, and other small spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyllus semicupreus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Semi-coppered heavy jumper
Where the facts come from
- Hyllus semicupreus (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 Sunny Joseph. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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