Black-headed jumping spider
The black-headed jumping spider has a jet black head end and black front legs, with a long golden brown body behind. It has big, sharp eyes and hunts by jumping on its prey. It lives only in New Zealand and is often seen around homes.
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Fun facts
It hides and builds its nests inside the rolled up leaves of New Zealand flax.
It can even catch prey in the dark, probably by feeling the tiny shakes it makes.
Before it jumps, it checks how strong the wind is.
A mother can lay up to seven batches of eggs, each wrapped in its own silk case.
Males sometimes have special duels, a bit like a dance, to see who is stronger.
Most asked questions about Black-headed jumping spider
?Where does the black-headed jumping spider live?
Only in New Zealand, often on flax plants and around houses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Trite planiceps
- Named by
- Simon, 1899
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Trite planiceps (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 Thomas Howard. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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