Mediterranean white-banded spider
Evarcha jucunda
Name means: “pleasant”
This little jumping spider has a bright white or yellowish band around its head, like a headband. Jumping spiders do not wait in webs. They stalk their food and leap on it.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Around the Mediterranean Sea, and brought to Belgium
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects and pounces on them, like all jumping spiders.
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)
Mediterranean white-banded spider about 0.8 km/h (0.5 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Males are black with a white line around the head and a brown back end.
2
It has been brought to Belgium, and it sometimes turns up in greenhouses in Germany.
3
It has a second, smaller pale band at the front of its back end.
you asked
Most asked questions about Mediterranean white-banded spider
?Where does the white-banded spider live?
Around the Mediterranean Sea, and also in Belgium and some German greenhouses.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Evarcha jucunda
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe
Where the facts come from
- Evarcha jucunda (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 Simon Thevenin. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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