Stats

Lifespan: About 1 yr
Size: Tiny
Diet: Insectivore
Activity: Diurnal
Social: Solitary
Biome: Temperate forest
Range: North America
Movement: Hopping
Breeding: Egg-laying
Defense: Camouflage
Status: Uncommon

About

A tiny jumping spider found across the eastern United States and Canada, rarely more than 5mm long. Like all jumping spiders it has four pairs of eyes, including two huge forward-facing ones that give it sharp depth perception for stalking and pouncing on prey.

Life cycle

1.
egg sac
A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2.
juvenile
A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3.
subadult
A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4.
adult
Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Naphrys
Species: Naphrys pulex