Half-edged wall jumping spider
Menemerus semilimbatus
The half-edged wall jumping spider is a flat jumping spider covered in short grey and white hairs. It has big eyes at the front and a pattern of bright V shapes on its back. It lives on house walls, where it sneaks up on insects.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Around the Mediterranean, in Europe, southern Asia and Africa, and now in parts of the Americas
Length
6.5 to 8.4 mm (0.26 to 0.33 in)
What does it eat?
It stalks small insects on walls and then jumps on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.8 seconds⚡moves 31 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Half-edged wall jumping spider about 0.95 km/h (0.59 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives both inside and outside houses and also in gardens.
2
It has a white stripe along the sides of its front body and a small white triangle in the middle.
3
The male is a little smaller than the female.
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Most asked questions about Half-edged wall jumping spider
?Where does the half-edged wall jumping spider live?
Mostly on the walls of houses and in gardens, around the Mediterranean and beyond.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Menemerus semilimbatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, North America
Where the facts come from
- Menemerus semilimbatus (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 Hectonichus. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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