Thin-spined jumping spider
Tutelina elegans
Name means: “elegant, because of its shiny metallic look”
The thin-spined jumping spider is a tiny, shiny jumping spider. The female is bronze green and can look copper red in some light. The male is brighter, with greenish yellow scales and a shiny purple spot at the end of its tummy.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Canada and the United States
Length
4 to 6 mm (0.16 to 0.24 in)
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and pouncing on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.5 seconds⚡moves 37 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Thin-spined jumping spider about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its name elegans means elegant, because it looks so shiny and metallic.
2
The male has two tufts of yellow and black hairs on the front of its head.
3
The male's front legs are much longer and bigger than the rest, but in the female the back legs are longest.
4
It is only about half a centimetre long.
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Most asked questions about Thin-spined jumping spider
?How big is the thin-spined jumping spider?
It is only about 4 to 6 mm long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tutelina elegans
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Tutelina elegans (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 spidereyes2020. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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