Hooked striking jumping spider
Icius hamatus
This little jumping spider loves sunshine. It sits on warm bushes and house walls in southern Europe and hunts by sneaking up and jumping. It has eight eyes, and two big ones in front give it super sharp eyesight.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Southern and central Europe, on sunny bushes and house walls
Length
5 to 7 mm (0.2 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects. It does not build a web to trap them but chases them and 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 4.2 seconds⚡moves 34 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)
Hooked striking jumping spider about 0.86 km/h (0.53 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
The male is rusty brown and hairy, with a white stripe down its back and whitish legs.
2
The female is brownish or greyish with darker markings.
3
It likes hot, dry places and is often found on the walls of houses.
4
It lives in countries like Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Romania and Poland.
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Most asked questions about Hooked striking jumping spider
?How big is the hooked striking jumping spider?
About 5 to 7 millimetres long, smaller than a fingernail.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Icius hamatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Icius hamatus (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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