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title: "Dimorphic Jumping Spider"
description: "Maevia inclemens — Insectes et araignées. Maevia inclemens or the dimorphic jumping spider is a relatively common and colorful jumping spider of North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/dimorphic-jumping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Dimorphic Jumping Spider

> Maevia inclemens — Insectes et araignées. Maevia inclemens or the dimorphic jumping spider is a relatively common and colorful jumping spider of North America.

- Scientific name: *Maevia inclemens*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 17900
- Wikidata: [Q4121567](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4121567)
- iNaturalist taxon: [133054](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/133054)

## Names

- en: Dimorphic Jumping Spider
- es: Saltarina rayada de dos colores

## Countries with the most observations

US (9791), CA (956)

## Summary

Maevia inclemens or the dimorphic jumping spider 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, 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 form accounts for 50% of the adult males, and they are equally successful in mating.
Like all jumping spiders, M. inclemens has excellent…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maevia_inclemens

## Photo

![Dimorphic Jumping Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dimorphic-jumping-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Caitlin Domon · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/216363465

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dimorphic-jumping-spider?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).