Hasselt's spiny spider
Macracantha hasselti
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
Hasselt's spiny spider looks like a little orange shield with black spikes. The female has a bright orange body with black spots and six black spikes around the edge. The male is small and plain.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Asia, from India east to Indonesia
Length
8 mm (0.31 in)
the female, without the legsWhat does it eat?
It catches small flying insects in its round web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 38 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Hasselt's spiny spider about 1.1 km/h (0.68 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The female's body has 12 black spots in two rows on her back.
2
The two spikes at the back corners are the longest ones.
3
Its front part is covered with thick white hair.
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Most asked questions about Hasselt's spiny spider
?Where does Hasselt's spiny spider live?
In Asia, from India east to Indonesia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Macracantha hasselti
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Macracantha hasselti (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 Rushenb. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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