Jolly telamonia
The jolly telamonia is a jumping spider from tropical Asia. It has a row of V-shaped marks running down its back end. The male is mostly black and white, while the female is yellowish brown and bigger.
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Fun facts
The female is bigger than the male. She can be about 11.5 millimetres long, and he is about 7.
The female has three white stripes of tiny scales across the part of her head where her eyes are.
It lives in many countries, from India all the way to the Philippines.
In India it has been found living in tea plantations.
Most asked questions about Jolly telamonia
?How does the jolly telamonia catch food?
Like other jumping spiders, it sneaks up on insects and pounces on them.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Telamonia festiva
- Named by
- Thorell, 1887
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Telamonia festiva (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 portioid. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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