Lawn wolf spider
The lawn wolf spider is a small brown spider with a white X pattern on its front part. Most wolf spiders wander around to hunt, but this one builds a web shaped like a funnel. It waits inside and rushes out when an insect lands.
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Fun facts
It lives in rice fields and helps farmers by eating insects that damage the rice.
Its back legs are very long, nearly five times as long as the front part of its body.
Its back end is blackish with brown spots and lines of white hairs.
It lives in grasslands, on farms and in gardens, from India and China to Singapore and the Philippines.
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?How big is the lawn wolf spider?
Its body is about 6 to 8 millimetres long, about as big as a pea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hippasa holmerae
- Named by
- Thorell, 1895
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Hippasa holmerae (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 Sus scrofa. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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