Horned arkys
Arkys cornutus
The horned arkys is a small, colourful spider from Australia. It can be yellow, orange or red, with pale spots on its heart-shaped bottom. It sits very still on a leaf and waits for a snack to come close.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Australia, on leaves and ferns
What does it eat?
It catches small insects. It grabs them with its big, spiny front legs.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Horned arkys 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
Its four front legs are big and covered in spines, while its four back legs are much smaller.
2
It is an ambush hunter. It rests on a leaf or fern and pounces when an insect comes near.
3
Females are bigger than males.
you asked
Most asked questions about Horned arkys
?What does the horned arkys eat?
Small insects that it grabs with its spiny front legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arkys cornutus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Arkyidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Arkyidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Horned triangular spider
Where the facts come from
- Arkys cornutus (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 Robert Whyte from Brisbane, Australia. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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