Ribbon jumping spider
Metacyrba taeniola
The ribbon jumping spider is a small jumping spider from North America. Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes and pounces on its prey instead of catching it in a web. It is a little bigger than its closest relatives.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The United States and Mexico
Length
4.4 to 7.2 mm (0.17 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it stalks small insects 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 4.1 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)
Ribbon jumping spider about 0.88 km/h (0.55 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 female grows up to about 7 millimetres long, a bit bigger than the male.
2
Its head part is wide, about 70 percent as wide as it is long.
3
There are two kinds of it: one in the eastern and midwestern United States, and one in the west.
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Most asked questions about Ribbon jumping spider
?How big is the ribbon jumping spider?
About 4.4 to 7.2 millimetres long. Females are bigger than males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Metacyrba taeniola
- Named by
- Hentz, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Metacyrba taeniola (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 Jesse Rorabaugh. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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