Sword-bearing thorelliola
The sword-bearing thorelliola is a small jumping spider. The male has two very long, thin spines on its face that point upward and stick so close together that they look like one sword. The female has no sword at all.
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Fun facts
The male is about 5 millimetres long, and the female is even smaller at about 4 millimetres.
The back end of its body is black with three small white spots in a curved line.
It first lived in Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia, and was later carried to islands such as Hawaii and Samoa.
Scientists moved it from one spider group to another four times before it got the name it has today in 1942.
Most asked questions about Sword-bearing thorelliola
?Why is it called sword-bearing?
The male has two long spines on its face that stick together and look like a little sword.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thorelliola ensifera
- Named by
- Thorell, 1877
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Thorelliola ensifera (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 Ioannis Magouras. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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