Buttonhook leafbeetle jumping spider
Sassacus vitis
The buttonhook leafbeetle jumping spider is a tiny jumping spider, no bigger than 5 millimetres. Its round, shiny body looks a bit like a little leaf beetle. It lives in North and Central America.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North and Central America, from Canada to Panama
Length
5 mm (0.2 in)
at mostWhat does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts tiny insects by pouncing on them.
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)
Buttonhook leafbeetle 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
The females are much bigger than the males.
2
The females have duller colours than the males.
3
It lives all the way from Canada down to Panama.
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Most asked questions about Buttonhook leafbeetle jumping spider
?How big is it?
It is no more than 5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Sassacus vitis
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Sassacus vitis (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 Kaldari. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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