Heavy jumper
Hyllus diardi
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The heavy jumper is a big jumping spider from South-east Asia. It is covered in shiny golden yellow hairs. The female has two tufts of long dark hair on her head that look like little horns.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
South-east Asia and south-western China
Length
1.2 to 1.2 cm (0.47 to 0.48 in)
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts insects by sneaking up and pouncing on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 25 times its own body length every second
How big is Heavy jumper compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Heavy jumper about 1.1 km/h (0.68 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 is one of the bigger jumping spiders, about 12 millimetres long.
2
The female is a little bigger than the male.
3
The female's back has upside down V shaped patterns.
4
It was first described in 1837 by the French spider expert Walckenaer.
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Most asked questions about Heavy jumper
?How big is the heavy jumper?
It is about 12 millimetres long, which is big for a jumping spider.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyllus diardi
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1837
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hyllus diardi (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 Doreen. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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