# Adanson's House Jumper

*Hasarius adansoni*

Males perform complex courtship dances, waving their colorful pedipalps and vibrating their abdomens to win over females.

- **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.

## About

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.

## Sources

- Plate: https://gaia-dex.com/species/6e5b5099-97e6-4df9-a211-5747e82c4d7a
- iNaturalist: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/347886
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasarius adansoni
- Conservation status: IUCN Red List category, as recorded by Gaia-Dex
- Photo: https://inaturalist-open-data.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/146573799/medium.jpg (Bernard DUPONT, CC-BY, via iNaturalist)

Habitat, diet, size and similar notes are AI-written summaries; check them against the linked sources before relying on them.