Mile End jumping spider
The Mile End jumping spider is a tiny jumping spider with white stripes and spots on its body. The male has a fringe of reddish brown hair around his big front eyes. It likes sunny, warm bushes.
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Fun facts
Its name means living in a nest. The first one found was inside a silk nest with lots of its babies.
The female is much lighter in colour than the male.
In Germany it was found for the first time in 1995, in the city of Cologne, and it seems to be spreading.
It has little curved tufts of black hair on the sides of its head, behind its eyes.
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?How big is the Mile End jumping spider?
Only 4 to 7 millimetres long, about the size of a grain of rice.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macaroeris nidicolens
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1802
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Macaroeris nidicolens (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 Dysmorodrepanis. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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