Tan jumping spider
The tan jumping spider is a flat, speckled brown spider with a zigzag pattern on its back. It does not catch food in a web. Instead it sneaks up and pounces, like a tiny cat. You can often see it on tree trunks and the walls of houses.
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Fun facts
Its thin, flat body lets it squeeze under loose tree bark to hide.
The zigzag pattern on its back helps it blend in on spotty bark.
Each spider makes its own little silk shelter for the winter.
Up to fifty of these spiders may spend the winter crowded together under the bark of one tree.
The females are a little bigger than the males.
Most asked questions about Tan jumping spider
?How big is a tan jumping spider?
About 1 centimetre long. Females are 10 to 13 millimetres, males a bit smaller.
?Where can you find a tan jumping spider?
On tree trunks and walls of buildings in North America, often hiding under loose bark.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Platycryptus undatus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Familiar jumping spider
Where the facts come from
- Platycryptus undatus (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 David Hill. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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