Dimorphic jumper
The dimorphic jumper is a small, colourful jumping spider. The males come in two totally different looks: one is black with three tufts of hair on its head, and the other is striped black and white with orange feelers. Both kinds are equally good at winning a female.
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Fun facts
Its two big front eyes see more sharply than a cat's eyes.
It has six more eyes on the sides of its head that notice movement.
Because the two kinds of males look so different, scientists first thought they were two different spiders.
It does not build a web to catch food. It hunts by jumping.
Like all spiders, it stretches its legs by pumping blood into them, not with muscles.
Most asked questions about Dimorphic jumper
?Why does the dimorphic jumper have two kinds of males?
Half the males are black and tufted and half are striped. Both kinds court females with their own dances and are equally successful.
?How big is the dimorphic jumper?
It is less than 1 centimetre long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Maevia inclemens
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Dimorphic jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Maevia inclemens (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 platycryptus. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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