Algerian jumping spider
The Algerian jumping spider is a tiny spider that does not catch its food in a web. Instead, it is a spider that hunts other spiders! Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes at the front of its head.
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Fun facts
It sneaks into other spiders' webs to catch the spider that lives there.
Sometimes it steals food from other spiders' webs, and it also eats eggs.
It is the only kind of Cyrba spider that lives in Europe.
Females are 4 to 6 millimetres long, while males are only 3.5 to 4 millimetres.
Most asked questions about Algerian jumping spider
?What does the Algerian jumping spider eat?
Mostly other spiders, especially ones that build webs. When it is very hungry, it eats insects too.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyrba algerina
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Cyrba algerina (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 ืืืชื ืคืจืื. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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