White banded house jumper
The white banded house jumper is a tiny brown or black jumping spider, a cousin of the famous peacock spiders. The female has a ring of white hairs around her head like a halo. The male has a bright red orange band around his eyes.
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Fun facts
Its eyes sit in a row around the top of its head, so it can see movement almost all around it.
To court a female, the male lifts his third pair of legs and wags his bottom from side to side.
If a female is not interested, she copies his dance back at him, and he runs away.
It lives for about one year.
The mother guards her eggs in a nest until they hatch.
Most asked questions about White banded house jumper
?How big is the white banded house jumper?
Only about 2 to 6 millimetres long.
?Is it a peacock spider?
Yes. It belongs to the peacock spider genus, Maratus.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Maratus griseus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- White-banded house jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Maratus griseus (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 Great Ocean Road Coast Committee (iNaturalist user: gorcc_enviroed). CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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