Black-tailed ostearius
Ostearius melanopygius
The black-tailed ostearius is a small spider that has travelled the world. It belongs to the sheetweb spiders, which spin flat webs that look like a little sheet. Today it lives on almost every continent.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
South America, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and now Europe
What does it eat?
Like other spiders, it catches small insects in its web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Black-tailed ostearius about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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
It lives in South America, in Africa from the Canary Islands to Egypt and South Africa, and in Turkey, China and New Zealand.
2
It was brought to Europe from other places, and now it lives there too.
3
Its web is a flat sheet of silk, not a round wheel like a garden spider's web.
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Most asked questions about Black-tailed ostearius
?Where does the black-tailed ostearius live?
In many parts of the world: South America, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and Europe.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ostearius melanopygius
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Linyphiidae
- Lives on
- South America, Africa, Asia, Australia and Oceania, Europe
Where the facts come from
- Ostearius melanopygius (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 eyekosaeder. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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