Bronze hopper
The bronze hopper is a jumping spider from Australia. The male has long, dark front legs and a flat head covered in creamy white hair. It is fast and nimble, and when something bothers it, it puts on a brave, threatening show.
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Fun facts
Its name minitabunda means threatening in Latin, because the males act tough when they are bothered.
Unusually for spiders, the males are bigger than the females.
Before they pair up, the male and female do a courtship dance that can last two or three hours.
The females are shy and good at hiding, while the males hunt boldly.
Most asked questions about Bronze hopper
?How big is the bronze hopper?
Males grow up to about 10 millimetres and females up to about 8 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Helpis minitabunda
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Threatening jumping spider, Bronze jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Helpis minitabunda (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 Robert Whyte from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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