Striped lynx spider
The striped lynx spider is a small spider with stripes, coloured orange, cream or brown. It lives in grass and leafy plants and does not catch its food in a web. Instead it hunts like a little lynx cat, chasing and pouncing.
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Fun facts
The girls are a little bigger than the boys, about 5 to 6 millimetres long.
Its legs are covered with long spiky bristles.
Farmers like lynx spiders, because they eat lots of insects that damage crops.
It has recently turned up in large numbers on the islands of Hawaii.
Most asked questions about Striped lynx spider
?Does the striped lynx spider make a web?
No. It hunts by chasing and pouncing on insects, like a little cat.
?How big is the striped lynx spider?
It is about 4 to 6 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Oxyopes salticus
- Named by
- Hentz, 1845
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Oxyopidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Oxyopidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Oxyopes salticus (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 Kaldari. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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