V-signed jumping spider
Aelurillus v-insignitus
Name means: “signed, in Latin, because of the V on the male's back”
The V-signed jumping spider is a small hairy spider that hunts by jumping on its prey. The boy has a white V-shaped mark on his back, like a letter signed on him. The girl is mottled brown.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and Asia
Length
4 to 7 mm (0.16 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It sneaks up on small insects and pounces on them in one jump.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.2 seconds⚡moves 34 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)
V-signed jumping spider about 0.86 km/h (0.53 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
The boy has rows of hairs on his head shaped like a V and a white stripe on his tummy.
2
It is the only spider of its group that lives in north-western Europe.
3
The V on its back was first written as one V on top of another, which looks a bit like a W.
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Most asked questions about V-signed jumping spider
?How big is the V-signed jumping spider?
It is about 4 to 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aelurillus v-insignitus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Aelurillus v-insignitus (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 Fritz Geller-Grimm. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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