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title: "Hooked Striking Jumping Spider"
description: "Icius hamatus — Insecten en spinnen. Icius hamatus is a species of 'jumping spiders' belonging to the family Salticidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/hooked-striking-jumping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Hooked Striking Jumping Spider

> Icius hamatus — Insecten en spinnen. Icius hamatus is a species of 'jumping spiders' belonging to the family Salticidae.

- Scientific name: *Icius hamatus*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `urban` (Steden en tuinen)
- iNaturalist observations: 2522
- Wikidata: [Q1314224](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1314224)
- iNaturalist taxon: [318820](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318820)

## Names

- en: Hooked Striking Jumping Spider
- fr: Icius des buissons

## Countries with the most observations

FR (274), IT (193), ES (126), TR (100), GR (70), BG (38), PT (38), HR (8), MA (8), AL (7), GE (6), DE (4)

## Summary

Icius hamatus is a species of 'jumping spiders' belonging to the family Salticidae.
This species is mainly present in Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Poland, Greece and Romania.

 The adults of these spiders reach approximately 5–7 millimetres (0.20–0.28 in) of length. They prefer dry and hot habitats ("xerothermic") and can mainly be encountered on sunny bushes, shrubs and walls of houses (synanthropic organism), where they actively pursue their preys.
In males the basic color of the hairy body is rusty brown, with a white longitudinal stripe and a white line on the edge of the opistosoma. The prosoma is mainly rusty…

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

## Photo

![Hooked Striking Jumping Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/hooked-striking-jumping-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Zygy · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/318820

## Machine access

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