Marpissa muscosa

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Marpissa muscosa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Family: Salticidae Genus: Marpissa Species: M. muscosa
Binomial name
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.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Distribution

M. muscosa lives in the Palearctic.

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