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Beige beetle jumper

Rhene flavigera
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersGardens and meadows8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin

The beige beetle jumper is a jumping spider from Asia. It has a broad, flat head and thick front legs. Its legs are striped black and white, like it is wearing stripy socks.

Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Asia, from Pakistan and India to China, Taiwan and Indonesia, in gardens, farms and forests
Length
7 mm (0.28 in)
females
Top speed
about 0.86 km/h (0.53 mph)
On foot, estimate
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects. It sneaks out of its hiding place to find prey.
For real!Photo of Beige beetle jumper
Picture by kumarkv. CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

How big is it?

How long is it?

Beige beetle jumper about 7 mm long (0.28 in)A grain of rice about 6 mm (0.24 in)A toy building brick about 3.2 cm (1.3 in)
small enough to sit on your fingernailcould run across a dinner table in 4.2 secondsmoves 34 times its own body length every second

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cool stuff

Fun facts

1

It makes a cosy hiding place by sewing leaves together with silk.

2

It has been found living in tea fields in India.

3

Its first genus name was already used by a beetle, so in 1869 it got a new one.

4

In 2022 scientists found that five spiders with other names were really this same species.

5

Its body is covered in fine hairs, with brown, white and black markings.

you asked

Most asked questions about Beige beetle jumper

?Where does the beige beetle jumper live?

Across Asia, from Pakistan to Indonesia and Taiwan, in gardens, farms and forests.

?How big is the beige beetle jumper?

Females are about 7 millimetres long.

For bug experts

Scientific name
Rhene flavigera
Named by
C. L. Koch, 1846
Group
Spiders
Family
Salticidae
Classification
Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
Lives on
Asia
Also known as
Zorro flat-head jumper

Where the facts come from

  1. Rhene flavigera (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
  2. Picture by kumarkv. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.

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