Yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula
Avicularia rufa
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula is a big, hairy spider from Brazil. Its legs have bright yellow rings near the ends, and its leg hairs shine with a pink glow. Its body has short golden hairs with a purple shimmer.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Brazil, for example in Mato Grosso and Rondônia
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 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
For years scientists mixed it up with a cousin, but the cousin has paler yellow rings on its legs.
2
Its long leg hairs are brown with whitish tips.
3
One of those substances was very good at fighting fungi, the group that moulds belong to.
4
It was first described by scientists in 1945.
you asked
Most asked questions about Yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula
?Where does the yellow-banded pinktoe tarantula live?
In Brazil, for example in the states of Mato Grosso and Rondônia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Avicularia rufa
- Named by
- Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Avicularia rufa (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 original: W. Bokermann processed image: User:Peter coxhead. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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