Indian green lynx spider
Peucetia viridana
The Indian green lynx spider is a bright green spider that hides in grass and low bushes. Its long strong legs have black spots and long black spines. A brown line runs down the middle of its back.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, on grass and low shrubs
Length
0.8 to 1.2 cm (0.31 to 0.47 in)
females are a bit bigger than malesWhat does it eat?
It hunts insects on plants.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.8 seconds⚡moves 30 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Indian green lynx spider about 1.3 km/h (0.81 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 green colour helps it hide among leaves.
2
Its belly plate under the body is shaped like a heart.
3
Two black lines run down its face from its eyes.
you asked
Most asked questions about Indian green lynx spider
?Where does the Indian green lynx spider live?
In India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka, on grass and low bushes.
?How big is the Indian green lynx spider?
Females are about 1 to 1.2 centimetres long, males a little smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Peucetia viridana
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Peucetia viridana (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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