Multi-coloured phintella
The multi-coloured phintella is a tiny jumping spider from the warm forests of Southeast Asia. The male has a little white moustache under his big front eyes. His back end has a dark stripe in the middle with pale yellow stripes on each side.
How big is it?
How long is it?
How big is Multi-coloured phintella compared to YOU?
Just maths in your browser. Nothing is saved or sent anywhere.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
Males and females look so different that scientists first thought they were two different species.
The female is pale with cinnamon brown blotches and has a strip of thick white hairs across her face.
Over the years it has been moved between five different groups of spiders before getting its name today.
It lives from the seaside up to about 300 metres high, even in forests growing on limestone rock.
Most asked questions about Multi-coloured phintella
?How big is the multi-coloured phintella?
The males are only about 4 to 6 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Phintelloides versicolor
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Phintelloides versicolor (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 yipsee. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
European garden spider
Goliath birdeater
Brown recluse
Redback spider
Yellow garden spider
Bold jumping spider
Death's head cockroach
Giant blue morpho
Hübner's wasp moth
Giant pill millipede
Red postman
Cairns birdwing