Red-bellied jumping spider
Philaeus chrysops
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The red-bellied jumping spider is a little jumping spider with very bright colours. The male has a glowing orange red belly with a black stripe and white stripes behind his eyes. The female is brown with whitish stripes.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Southern Europe, North Africa and Asia all the way to China and Korea, in warm dry places
Length
0.7 to 1.2 cm (0.28 to 0.47 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts insects in the hot hours of the day. It does not use a web but jumps right onto its prey.
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 Red-bellied jumping spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Red-bellied jumping spider 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
Unusually for spiders, the males are often bigger than the females.
2
To impress a female, the male waves his front legs in the air and drums on the ground.
3
The mother guards her egg cocoon until the babies hatch.
4
It does not live in Estonia, it likes warmer countries.
you asked
Most asked questions about Red-bellied jumping spider
?How big is the red-bellied jumping spider?
Usually about 7 to 12 millimetres long.
?Does it make a web?
No. It hunts by jumping onto its prey.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Philaeus chrysops
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Africa, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Philaeus chrysops (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 Gilles San Martin. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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