Four-lined slender jumping spider
Marpissa lineata
Name means: “lined or striped, because of the bands on its body and legs”
The four-lined slender jumping spider is a tiny brown spider with dark stripes on its body. It is smaller than your little fingernail. Like all jumping spiders, it does not wait in a web but hops onto its food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern North America, in the United States and Canada, in leaf litter of forests, bushes and prairies
Length
3 to 5.2 mm (0.12 to 0.2 in)
females are bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It hunts tiny insects in the fallen leaves and pounces on them.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 4.9 seconds⚡moves 40 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Four-lined slender jumping spider about 0.74 km/h (0.46 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives in the layer of old leaves on the forest floor and in prairie grass.
2
Its front legs are twice as thick as its other legs.
3
The females are a little bigger than the males.
4
In Florida it is not found, because a cousin spider lives there instead.
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Most asked questions about Four-lined slender jumping spider
?How big is this jumping spider?
Only about 3 to 5 millimetres long. Females are a bit bigger than males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Marpissa lineata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Marpissa lineata (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 Meghan Cassidy. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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