Lami Beach northern jumping spider
The Lami Beach northern jumping spider is a small, bright orange jumping spider, covered in orange hairs like a little tangerine. It has a dark patch around its big eyes. It hunts on bushes and roadside plants near people's homes.
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Fun facts
The very first one was found in 1987 on a bush in Lami, Fiji, and it was named after that place.
In Japan it is called homura-haetori, which means flame fly-catcher.
Some of these spiders shimmer with shiny colours when the light hits them.
It has travelled far. It reached Japan in 2013 and Taiwan in 2021, probably with help from people.
Males wave their little feelers up and down and keep bobbing their bodies.
Most asked questions about Lami Beach northern jumping spider
?Where does it get its name?
It is named after Lami in Fiji, where the first one was found in 1987.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cosmophasis lami
- Named by
- Berry, Beatty & Prószyński, 1997
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania, Africa
- Also known as
- Tangerine garden jumper
Where the facts come from
- Cosmophasis lami (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 Wildan R. Ardani. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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