Fringed jumping spider

It can hunt inside another spider's web. Its slow, choppy movements and leg flaps make it look like leaf debris blown in the breeze.1

Its main eyes are very sharp. It can tell prey and other spiders apart from up to 280 mm away, about 47 times its own body length.1

In Queensland, it uses a 'cryptic stalking' technique that stops most jumping spider prey from recognising it as a predator, or even as an animal.1

Its hunting is so flexible that it is sometimes called an 'eight-legged cat', after the adaptable hunting of a lion.1

Unlike other Portia species, females do not eat their mates during courtship or after mating.1