Chilean recluse
The Chilean recluse is a shy brown spider from South America. Many have a dark mark on the back that looks like a little violin. It has only six eyes, while most spiders have eight. It likes quiet, dark corners and comes out at night to hunt.
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Fun facts
Its eyes are a good way to know it: six eyes in three pairs, instead of eight.
In Spanish its name means corner spider, because it loves to hide in corners.
It can live for a long time without food or water. That is how it travels around the world hidden in boxes and fruit.
A small group of these spiders has lived in a natural history museum in Helsinki, Finland, for many years.
Most asked questions about Chilean recluse
?How can you tell a Chilean recluse?
It is brown, often with a violin-shaped mark on its back, and it has six eyes instead of eight.
?Where does the Chilean recluse live?
It comes from South America, especially Chile. It likes dry, quiet places like closets, sheds, garages and woodpiles.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Loxosceles laeta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Sicariidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Sicariidae
- Lives on
- South America, North America, Europe, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Fiddleback spider, Violin spider, Corner spider
Where the facts come from
- Chilean recluse spider (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 Ssiltane. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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