Stats

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

About

A small jumping spider of eastern North American woodlands and gardens, named for its males' two distinct courtship forms: a black 'tufted' morph with three dark head tufts and a grey-striped 'grey' morph, each performing a different mating dance. Like all jumping spiders, it has four pairs of eyes and can leap many times its own body length to pounce 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: Maevia
Species: Maevia inclemens