White-striped running crab spider
Philodromus rufus
The white-striped running crab spider belongs to the running crab spiders. These spiders do not wait in a web but run after their food. It lives in North America, Europe and Asia.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Siberia, Central Asia, China, Korea and Japan
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects and other little creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
White-striped running crab 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 lives on three continents, from North America across Europe and Asia all the way to Japan.
2
There are five different kinds of it, called subspecies.
3
Like all spiders, it has eight legs, so it is not an insect.
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Most asked questions about White-striped running crab spider
?Where does the white-striped running crab spider live?
In North America, Europe and Asia, all the way east to Korea and Japan.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Philodromus rufus
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1826
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Philodromidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Philodromidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Philodromus rufus (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 James K. Lindsey. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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