Mexigonus minutus
Arachnida
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Annual
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Hopping
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Uncommon
About
Mexigonus minutus is a small jumping spider that lives in the United States and Mexico. It has a fascinating ability to jump up to 100 times its body length.
Life cycle
- 1.egg sacA silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
- 2.juvenileA spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
- 3.subadultA near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
- 4.adultFully grown after its final molt.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Salticidae
- Genus
- Mexigonus
- Species
- Mexigonus minutus