Stats

Lifespan

1-2 yrs

Size

Small

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Diurnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Tropical rainforest

Range

Southeast Asia

Movement

Hopping

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Speed

Status

Common

About

This jumping spider lives on the exterior walls of buildings across the globe. It uses hydraulic pressure in its legs to leap up to fifty times its own body length.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Salticidae

Genus

Plexippus

Species

Plexippus paykulli