Sombrero spider
Stiphidion facetum
The sombrero spider is a spider from Australia and New Zealand. It is a bold little spider that sometimes moves into the webs of other spiders. It knows that a good web is in a spot with plenty of food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Australia and New Zealand
What does it eat?
It eats insects and other small prey caught in webs.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Sombrero 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 will try to take over another spider's web, because webs are built where lots of insects fly by.
2
When a mother spider eats food full of protein, her babies grow faster and live longer.
3
The daughters of well-fed mothers are better at having babies of their own.
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Most asked questions about Sombrero spider
?Where does the sombrero spider live?
In Australia, where it comes from, and in New Zealand.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Stiphidion facetum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Stiphidiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Stiphidiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Stiphidion facetum (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 Toby Hudson. CC BY-SA 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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