Golden-brown jumping spider
The golden-brown jumping spider is a little brown spider from New Zealand with big eyes and great eyesight. The grown-up boys have a yellow band under their eyes that looks like a moustache. It does not build a web but sneaks up on bugs and pounces.
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Fun facts
Grown-ups can spot moving prey up to 75 centimetres away.
It hunts in three steps: it turns to look, it creeps closer, and then it jumps.
Young spiders miss a lot at first and get better with practice.
Baby spiders that eat a woodlouse once never eat one again.
It often hides in rolled up flax leaves.
Most asked questions about Golden-brown jumping spider
?How does the golden-brown jumping spider catch food?
It watches with its big eyes, sneaks up on a bug and then pounces on it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trite auricoma
- Named by
- Urquhart, 1886
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Trite auricoma (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 (c) Saryu, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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