Beige beetle jumper
The beige beetle jumper is a jumping spider from Asia. It has a broad, flat head and thick front legs. Its legs are striped black and white, like it is wearing stripy socks.
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Fun facts
It makes a cosy hiding place by sewing leaves together with silk.
It has been found living in tea fields in India.
Its first genus name was already used by a beetle, so in 1869 it got a new one.
In 2022 scientists found that five spiders with other names were really this same species.
Its body is covered in fine hairs, with brown, white and black markings.
Most asked questions about Beige beetle jumper
?Where does the beige beetle jumper live?
Across Asia, from Pakistan to Indonesia and Taiwan, in gardens, farms and forests.
?How big is the beige beetle jumper?
Females are about 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rhene flavigera
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Zorro flat-head jumper
Where the facts come from
- Rhene flavigera (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 kumarkv. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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