Bug FAQThin-spined Jumping Spider
Tutelina elegans · Order: Araneae · Family: Salticidae
The thin-spined jumping spider is a tiny spider about 4 to 6 mm long, with a bronze-green body that can look copper-red in some light. Its legs are yellow with dark stripes, while the front femora are dark brown. It lives across Canada and the United States, making it a North-American species.
Source: Wikipedia
How to recognize it
The spider’s overall color is bronze-green, sometimes appearing copper-red depending on lighting.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it comes from
The species is distributed across North America, recorded from Canada and the United States.
Source: Wikipedia
Where it is found in the US
Recorded in 38 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Ohio, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, Colorado, New York, New Jersey, Virginia.
Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.
Source: GBIF
Status: native in North America; native in Canada. Source: iNaturalist
Months it is reported in the US
Source: GBIF
More photos
Same family (Salticidae)
Sources
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tutelina_elegans
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