White-jawed jumping spider
Hentzia mitrata
Name means: “wearing a cap”
The white-jawed jumping spider is a tiny reddish brown jumping spider. Its back has three pairs of brown spots and its sides have yellow and red stripes. The male's long front legs are fringed with white hairs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern North America and the Bahamas
Length
4.5 to 5 mm (0.18 to 0.2 in)
What does it eat?
Like other jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by pouncing on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.9 seconds⚡moves 41 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White-jawed jumping spider about 0.73 km/h (0.45 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its name mitrata means wearing a cap, probably because of the coloured pattern on its head.
2
The scientist who first described it thought the male and female were two different species.
3
Females are only a tiny bit bigger than males.
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Most asked questions about White-jawed jumping spider
?How big is the white-jawed jumping spider?
Only about 4.5 to 5 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hentzia mitrata
- Named by
- Hentz, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hentzia mitrata (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 xpda. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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