Lean lynx spider
Oxyopes macilentus
Name means: “Its scientific name macilentus is Latin for lean or thin, because of its skinny body.”
The lean lynx spider is a long, skinny spider. Its body is about four times as long as it is wide. It can be pale white, yellow, orange or green, with black, orange and white stripes running down its back.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
East, South and Southeast Asia and northern Australia, in grassy places and rice fields
Length
0.9 to 1 cm (0.35 to 0.39 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts small animals among plants, and it even catches other spiders.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3 seconds⚡moves 33 times its own body length every second
How big is Lean lynx spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Lean lynx spider 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
It does not wait in a web. It is an active hunter that chases its food among the leaves.
2
It is especially common in grassy places and rice fields.
3
Females grow up to 1 cm long, and males are a little smaller.
4
It was first described in 1878 by the German spider scientist Ludwig Koch.
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Most asked questions about Lean lynx spider
?What does the lean lynx spider eat?
Small animals living among plants, including other spiders.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oxyopes macilentus
- Named by
- L. Koch, 1878
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Oxyopes macilentus (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 Obsidian Soul .. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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