#4420 · 🕷️ spiders & kin

Dimorphic Jumping Spider

Maevia inclemens

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what is it?

Maevia inclemens is a relatively common and colorful jumping spider of North America. In the males there are two forms, a very rare phenomenon in zoology. These use different courting displays,:3-4 and differ in appearance: the "tufted" morph has a black body and pedipalps ("palps"), three black tufts across its "head", and pale legs; and the "gray" morph has black and white stripes all over its body and legs, orange palps, and no tufts. However, each...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,265iNaturalist observations

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
18,265 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Athanase Walckenaer in 1837 (189 years ago).