Sylvan jumping spider
Colonus sylvanus
The sylvan jumping spider is a small jumping spider from the Americas. Like all jumping spiders, it has big front eyes and jumps on its prey. It lives from the United States down to Panama.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From the United States down to Panama
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and pouncing.
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)
Sylvan jumping spider 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 1846 from spiders found in South Carolina.
2
It is a small spider, but its eyes are among the best of all spiders.
3
Jumping spiders do not need a web to catch food. They see very well and leap onto it.
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Most asked questions about Sylvan jumping spider
?Where does the sylvan jumping spider live?
From the United States south to Panama.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Colonus sylvanus
- Named by
- Hentz, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Colonus sylvanus (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 Zygy. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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