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  Jumping Spider

 

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A Small Zebra Jumping Spider, also known as Tropical Flycatcher and with the binomial name Plexippus petersi, is a house-dwelling spider, renowned for its agility and precision in hunting mosquitoes, flies, and other invertebrates indoors.  It has eight eyes, that consist of a fixed lens on the outside and a tiny retina at the back of a long tube, which the spider is able to move due to muscles that surround it.

 

This allows the spider to look from one side to the other while sitting still and make for a perfect hunting tool when ambushing prey.

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  Jumping Spider