Bromelia tarantula
Pachistopelma rufonigrum
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The bromelia tarantula is a hairy spider from Brazil that changes colour as it grows. The babies are shiny metallic green with black stripes. Grown-ups turn brown with long pinkish hairs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Brazil
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)
Bromelia 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
A young one is almost all metallic green, with a black stripe pattern on its back end.
2
As it grows, its front part turns pink and its back end turns bright red.
3
The grown-up male has brown hairy legs with black feet and a bright orange-red back end.
4
It lives only in Brazil and nowhere else in the world.
you asked
Most asked questions about Bromelia tarantula
?What colour is the bromelia tarantula?
It changes colour as it grows, from metallic green as a baby to brown with pink hairs as a grown-up.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Pachistopelma rufonigrum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Pachistopelma rufonigrum (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: R. Bertani processed by: P. Coxhead. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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