Adanson's House Jumper
Hasarius adansoni
Males perform complex courtship dances, waving their colorful pedipalps and vibrating their abdomens to win over females.
- Scientific name
- Hasarius adansoni
- Taxonomy
- Animalia › Arthropoda › Arachnida › Araneae › Salticidae › Hasarius
- IUCN Red List status
- Least Concern
- Population trend
- stable
- Biome
- urban
- Habitat
- Urban spaces, houses, greenhouses, gardens, and warm man-made structures.
- Diet
- Small insects, flies, mosquitoes, moths, and other spiders.
- Range
- Cosmopolitan distribution, Warm temperate regions, Tropical regions globally
- Size
- 6 to 8 mm in body length
- Lifespan
- 1 to 2 years
- Active
- diurnal
- Threats
- Pesticide use, domestic predators like cats, and direct human persecution due to arachnophobia.
- Safe to approach?
- Harmless. If encountered indoors, allow it to hunt pests or gently relocate it outside using a cup and paper. Safe to observe from any distance. In the highly unlikely event of a bite, wash the area with soap and water; mild irritation passes quickly.
Hasarius adansoni , known commonly as Adanson's house jumper , is a species of jumping spider common and associated with people in most of the warmer parts of the world.
Photo: Bernard DUPONT, CC-BY, via iNaturalist
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