African green lynx spider
The African green lynx spider is a bright green spider with long, thin, spiny legs. It does not build a web to catch food. Instead it lives on plants and hunts there, hidden by its green colour.
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Fun facts
It lives in Spain, Greece, the Canary Islands, Africa and the Middle East. People carried it to the Caribbean islands too.
It has been found in forests, grasslands, savannas and dry scrub, from almost sea level up to about 1,300 metres.
It has even been found in pistachio orchards.
It was first described in 1858 from Algeria, under a different name.
Most asked questions about African green lynx spider
?Where does the African green lynx spider live?
In Africa, southern Europe and the Middle East, and it has been brought to the Caribbean.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Peucetia viridis
- Named by
- Blackwall, 1858
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Peucetia viridis (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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