Intertidal jumping spider
The intertidal jumping spider is a tiny spider that lives on the beach. It is black, grey and tan, just like sand and pebbles, so it is very hard to see. Few spiders in the world make their home on a beach like it does.
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It is only 3 to 5 millimetres long, about as big as a grain of rice.
It lives where the sea goes in and out, between high and low tide.
Males have longer front legs than females. They use them to scare off other males and to show off to females.
It looks a lot like its close relatives, so experts often tell it apart by where they find it: on the beach.
Most asked questions about Intertidal jumping spider
?Where does the intertidal jumping spider live?
On sandy beaches along the Pacific coast of North America, from Canada to Mexico.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Terralonus californicus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Beach jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Terralonus californicus (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 Marshal Hedin from San Diego. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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