High eyelashed jumping spider
Phidippus mystaceus
Name means: “Mystaceus comes from the Greek word for moustache, because the females have a moustache of hairs.”
The high eyelashed jumping spider is a small jumping spider from North America. The females have a little moustache of hairs on their face. Above its eyes it has markings that look like donkey ears.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America
Length
1 cm (0.39 in)
femalesWhat does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and pouncing.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.6 seconds⚡moves 28 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)
High eyelashed jumping spider about 1 km/h (0.62 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
Its scientific name mystaceus comes from an old Greek word for moustache.
2
An older name for it, asinarius, means donkey-like, because of the ear-shaped marks above its eyes.
3
A grown-up female is about 1 centimetre long.
you asked
Most asked questions about High eyelashed jumping spider
?Why does it have a moustache?
The females have a tuft of hairs on the face that looks like a moustache. That is where its scientific name comes from.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phidippus mystaceus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Phidippus mystaceus (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 David Hill. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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