Jumping spiders—one of the largest spider families—get their name from the extraordinary jumps they make to hunt prey, to ...

Regal jumping spiders are small but striking arachnids ... Adult males are typically black with iridescent green-blue-violet chelicerae (mouthparts) and a white fringe along their abdomens.

The WSC, based at the Natural History Museum of Bern in the Swiss capital, said the 50,000th spider registered is the Guriurius minuano, which belongs to the Salticidae family of jumping spiders ...