Lesser Goa mustard tarantula
The lesser Goa mustard tarantula is a big, hairy spider from India. It digs its home in steep earth banks along roads and paths. The door to its burrow is shaped like a trumpet.
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Fun facts
It digs its burrows into steep earth banks, from half a metre to 5 metres above the ground.
The trumpet-shaped door of its burrow has a rim made of wet mud and spider silk.
It often props up the entrance with twigs and dry leaves so it does not fall in.
It likes shady spots under tall trees, where the sun hardly reaches.
It is near threatened, because roads are widened, trees are cut down and some people catch it to sell as a pet.
Most asked questions about Lesser Goa mustard tarantula
?Where does the lesser Goa mustard tarantula live?
Only in the Western Ghats in India, in burrows in shady earth banks.
?Why is the lesser Goa mustard tarantula in danger?
Its home banks are being dug away when roads get wider, trees are cut down, and some spiders are taken for the pet trade.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thrigmopoeus truculentus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Karwar large burrowing spider, Karwar burrowing spider
Where the facts come from
- Thrigmopoeus truculentus (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 (c) kalyanvarma, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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