Variegated lynx spider
The variegated lynx spider is a dark brown spider with a whitish pattern and black, spiny legs. It does not use a web. It runs fast and pounces on its prey like a cat, which is why it is named after the lynx.
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Fun facts
It can spot an insect from about 10 centimetres away.
It hunts during the day, not at night.
The mother spins an egg sac, sticks it to a plant and guards it until the babies hatch.
In Britain it lives in only a few places in southern England.
It loves dry heathland with heather and other low bushes.
Most asked questions about Variegated lynx spider
?How does the lynx spider catch its food?
It does not use a web. It runs fast and jumps on insects, like a cat.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oxyopes heterophthalmus
- Named by
- Latreille, 1804
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Oxyopes heterophthalmus (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by AfroBrazilian. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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