Two-striped telamonia
Telamonia dimidiata
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The two-striped telamonia is a pretty jumping spider from Asian rainforests. The female is pale yellow with two bright red stripes on her back and red rings around her eyes. The male is dark with white marks and red hair around his eyes.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Tropical Asia, from India and Pakistan to Singapore and Indonesia, in rainforest leaves
Length
0.8 to 1.1 cm (0.31 to 0.43 in)
What does it eat?
Like all jumping spiders, it hunts small insects by sneaking up and jumping on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 28 times its own body length every second
How big is Two-striped telamonia compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Two-striped telamonia about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Females are a little bigger than males, about 1 centimetre long.
2
It lives among the leaves of trees in tropical forests.
3
Since 1999 a fake email story has spread about it, but every word of the scary part is untrue.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Telamonia dimidiata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Two-striped jumper
Where the facts come from
- Telamonia dimidiata (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 Jeevan Jose, Kerala, India. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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