Big-bellied tylorida
The big-bellied tylorida is a small spider from warm parts of Asia. Its tummy is long, with a tiny pointed bump sticking up at the back end. It comes in two colours, silver or yellow, sprinkled with white and black spots.
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Fun facts
The female is bigger than the male. She is about 7 millimetres long and he is a bit under 5.
Underneath its tummy it has two big black spots in the middle.
The male has a strong tooth on the inside of each jaw.
It was first described in 1877 from a spider found on an island in Indonesia, and it has had several different scientific names since then.
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?How big is the big-bellied tylorida?
Females are about 7 millimetres long and males are a little smaller.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Tylorida ventralis
- Named by
- Thorell, 1877
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Tetragnathidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Tetragnathidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Tylorida ventralis (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 Mark Bulahao. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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