Peatland sheetweb weaver
Hypselistes florens
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersPonds, rivers and shores8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The peatland sheetweb weaver is a tiny spider from North America. It belongs to the dwarf spiders, some of the smallest spiders there are. Like every spider, it has eight legs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The United States and Canada
What does it eat?
Like other spiders, it catches tiny insects and other small creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Peatland sheetweb weaver 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 family is called the sheet weavers, because many of them spin flat webs like little sheets.
2
Scientists first described it in 1875, almost 150 years ago.
3
There are two kinds of it, called subspecies.
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Most asked questions about Peatland sheetweb weaver
?Where does the peatland sheetweb weaver live?
In the United States and Canada.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hypselistes florens
- Named by
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Linyphiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Linyphiidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Hypselistes florens (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 Dann Thombs. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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