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unusual facts about jumping spider



Kounotori 3

Two experiments, originally designed by the winners of the international YouTube Space Lab competition, would examine how Bacillus subtilis and the jumping spider would react to microgravity.

Phormium tenax

The jumping spider Trite planiceps lives predominantly in the rolled-up leaves of this species.


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Allometric engineering

The fly Zonosemata vittigera has a banding pattern on its wings that was found to mimic movements of a jumping spider.

C. fenestrata

Cotinusa fenestrata, Taczanowski, 1878, a jumping spider species in the genus Cotinusa found in Peru

C. hastatus

Coccorchestes hastatus, Balogh, 1980, a jumping spider species in the genus Coccorchestes found in New Guinea

E. falcata

Evarcha falcata, a jumping spider species with palaearctic distribution

H. hastatus

Heliophanus hastatus, a jumping spider species found in South Africa

S. cyaneus

Sassacus cyaneus, a jumping spider species native to Sonora in Mexico and parts of the United States