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title: "Brilliant Jumping Spider"
description: "Phidippus clarus — Insecten en spinnen. Phidippus clarus, also known as the brilliant jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in old fields throughout eastern North America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/brilliant-jumping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Brilliant Jumping Spider

> Phidippus clarus — Insecten en spinnen. Phidippus clarus, also known as the brilliant jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in old fields throughout eastern North America.

- Scientific name: *Phidippus clarus*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Weiden en velden)
- iNaturalist observations: 11825
- Wikidata: [Q4154080](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4154080)
- iNaturalist taxon: [58416](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/58416)

## Names

- en: Brilliant Jumping Spider
- fr: Saltique clair

## Countries with the most observations

US (9291), CA (1759)

## Summary

Phidippus clarus, also known as the brilliant jumping spider, is a species of jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in old fields throughout eastern North America. It often waits upside down near the top of a plant, which may be useful for detecting prey, and then quickly jumps down before the prey can escape. The spider is one of 60 species in the genus Phidippus, and one of about 5,000 in the Salticidae, a family that accounts for about 10% of all spider species. P. clarus is a predator, mostly consuming insects, other spiders, and other terrestrial arthropods.
P. clarus is a relatively large salticid that is…

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Sam Droege · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/56848720

## Machine access

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