Marpissa muscosa
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| Marpissa muscosa (Clerck, 1757) |
Marpissa muscosa is a jumping spider.
Females reach about 8-11mm length, males only 6-8mm. Both sexes are colored grey to brown.
The species builds a kind of nest under the bark of dead trees. Up to 100 of these nests can occur side by side. This spider has a hierarchy: weaker animals will show their inferiority by strutting their front legs and slowly receding from the scene.
[edit] Distribution
M. muscosa lives in the Palearctic.
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