Green jumping spider
The green jumping spider is a bright green spider from Australia that jumps instead of spinning a web to catch food. The male has long white side whiskers and a little black tuft of hair on top, like a funny hairstyle. The female wears a red and white mask instead.
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Fun facts
At 12 millimetres, the female is one of the biggest jumping spiders in Australia.
The males do a fancy dance to impress a female.
A male sometimes waits in a nest next door to a young female until she is grown up.
It is the only species in its group, called Mopsus.
Most asked questions about Green jumping spider
?How big is the green jumping spider?
The female is about 12 millimetres long, which is big for a jumping spider.
?Where does the green jumping spider live?
In eastern Australia and New Guinea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Mopsus mormon
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Salticidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Salticidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Mopsus mormon (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 Jack T Wanamaker. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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