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title: "Cardinal Jumping Spider"
description: "Phidippus cardinalis — Owady i pająki. Phidippus cardinalis is a species of jumping spider."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/cardinal-jumping-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cardinal Jumping Spider

> Phidippus cardinalis — Owady i pająki. Phidippus cardinalis is a species of jumping spider.

- Scientific name: *Phidippus cardinalis*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2174
- Wikidata: [Q1646580](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1646580)
- iNaturalist taxon: [153838](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/153838)

## Names

- en: Cardinal Jumping Spider

## Countries with the most observations

US (1973)

## Summary

Phidippus cardinalis is a species of jumping spider. It is commonly called cardinal jumper. It is one of the species of jumping spiders which are mimics of mutillid wasps in the genus Dasymutilla (commonly known as "velvet ants"); several species of these wasps are similar in size and coloration to the spiders, and possess a very painful sting. [1]

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Lyn Roueche · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141343692

## Machine access

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