Bold Jumping Spider
Phidippus audax
Arachnida
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- About 1 yr
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Diurnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate grassland
- Range
- North America
- Movement
- Hopping
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Common
About
The bold jumping spider is one of the most recognizable spiders in North America, known for its jet-black body with white and orange abdominal markings and brilliantly iridescent blue-green chelicerae. It hunts by stalking prey and pouncing with precision leaps up to 50 times its own body length, aided by four large forward-facing eyes that give it nearly 360° vision.
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
- Phidippus
- Species
- Phidippus audax