Hi-browed crab spider
The hi-browed crab spider is an Australian spider that is a master of hiding. It is brown, grey or sometimes black, just like tree bark. It sits very still and waits, and its favourite food is other spiders.
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Fun facts
Females are bigger than males, up to about 1 centimetre long.
The mother hides her egg sac in a crack in the tree bark and covers it with little bits of dirt and bark.
There are 25 to 30 off-white eggs inside, and the mother rests right next to them.
The very first one that scientists studied was dried and pinned, which made it hard to describe properly.
Most asked questions about Hi-browed crab spider
?What does the hi-browed crab spider eat?
Mostly other spiders, such as jumping spiders.
?How big is the hi-browed crab spider?
Females grow up to about 10 millimetres and males up to about 6 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stephanopis altifrons
- Named by
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Stephanopis altifrons (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 James Niland from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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