Black-palped jumping spider
The black-palped jumping spider is a tiny jumping spider that hides under tree bark and stones. Like all jumping spiders, it has big eyes and pounces on its food. It is not very common, so finding one is a treat.
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It is only 3 to 5 millimetres long, smaller than a grain of rice.
It has a look-alike cousin that lives almost only in and around houses.
It was carried to the United States and now lives in states like New York and Oregon.
Adults can be found in spring and summer, and females also in autumn.
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?Where does the black-palped jumping spider live?
Under tree bark and stones at forest edges in Europe and Asia, and now in parts of the United States.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pseudeuophrys erratica
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Pseudeuophrys erratica (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 Accipiter (Rainer Altenkamp, Berlin). CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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