Brown flower spider
The brown flower spider is a pretty crab spider from South and Southeast Asia. Its front part is red with dark patches, and its back end is dark brown with chalk-white stripes. Its legs are light green with black patches.
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The female is 7 to 9 millimetres long, while the male is only 4 to 6 millimetres.
It has eight eyes, set in two rows on the front of its head.
It lives in rice fields and is one of the spiders that share the fields with the farmers.
For a long time scientists mixed it up with another spider. In 1977 it was shown to be its own kind.
In 2017 it was found in Bangladesh for the first time.
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?How big is the brown flower spider?
The female is about 7 to 9 millimetres long and the male about 4 to 6 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camaricus formosus
- Named by
- Thorell, 1887
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camaricus formosus (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 Vengolis. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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