What's this?

[Kaison]

Calling all insect experts!

I keep finding small insect around the house and I’m unsure of what they are.

They’re too small for me to get a good enough picture in focus to see the details, so I will explain them as best I can.

-The largest I’ve found so far was around 1cm in length and around 2-3mm wide
-It’s body was silky like a moth with a powdery sheen to it.
-Up front it looks like a spider with what I believe to be 8 legs, as it got away I’m unsure
-it’s long body seems to be like a tail that slowly thins as it gets to the end where what looks like a small needle is located
-the front portion of it’s body consists of it’s legs and body, which take up around a quarter of it’s overall length
-it is also VERY fast, and can jump very high and quickly, trying to catch it proved impossible for me. . .

I’ve really curious about this creature as I see them around quite often

[JC Phasmid]

Hmm, the first thing that springs to mind is the zebra spider (Salticus scenicus) as they move very quick, but i'm not sure as they are less than 1cm. Look it up.

[Carim]

hmm
sounds like it could be silverfish to me, they live in basically every house, but are rarely seen because they are mostly nocturnal.

although siverfish have 2 tail filaments
and only 6 legs, although maybe the antenna, tails were mistaken as legs :confused:

[Carim]

i found a pic, did it look like this:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v668/Poblo/silverfish.jpg

[Kaison]

Similar in shape, although it was thinner and it didn't have the 3 antenna at the back, instead it have what looked like a VERY thin needle like . . . well needle lol . . . best I can describe it.
And its feet were all very close together.
Also didn't have such long antenna at the front either, very small ones.

And again its skin wasn't scaled like the picture above; it was literally like that of a moth.

Maybe it was another species.
I live in Cyprus.