Green ant-hunter spider
Cosmophasis bitaeniata
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The green ant-hunter spider is a small jumping spider that shines like gold. It has thin silver stripes with black edges on its body. It sneaks up on the nests of green tree ants and takes their babies to eat.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Micronesia and Fiji
Length
6 mm (0.24 in)
What does it eat?
It eats the larvae of green tree ants.
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)
Green ant-hunter 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 golden colour changes as the light around it changes.
2
It is a jumping spider. Jumping spiders hunt by leaping instead of waiting in a web.
3
The male and female look almost the same, but the male is a bit smaller and thinner.
4
Its whole body is only about 6 millimetres long.
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Most asked questions about Green ant-hunter spider
?What does the green ant-hunter spider eat?
The larvae of green tree ants, which it takes from their nests.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cosmophasis bitaeniata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Green ant hunter
Where the facts come from
- Cosmophasis bitaeniata (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 Graham Winterflood. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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