Giant jumping spider
The giant jumping spider is one of the biggest jumping spiders in the world. Like all jumping spiders, it has big round eyes at the front of its head and pounces on its food. Its fuzzy body is mottled in shades of brown and beige.
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It was first described in 1846 by the German spider expert Carl Ludwig Koch.
Females have stripes around their face and a black band across their back.
Males grow up darker and have long jaws that point in opposite directions.
It is often mixed up with a close cousin that looks almost the same.
Most asked questions about Giant jumping spider
?How big is the giant jumping spider?
Its body is about 1.8 to 2.5 centimetres long, which is huge for a jumping spider.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hyllus giganteus
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1846
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hyllus giganteus (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 James Eaton. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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