Laglaise's garden spider
Laglaise's garden spider is a small spider from tropical Asia. Its body is shaped like a cone, with a little hump-like tail at the end. It is yellowish grey with chalky white patches.
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Fun facts
It has eight eyes, set in two rows.
Females are a little bigger than males, about 6.7 millimetres long compared to 5.3.
It was first described in 1877 from spiders found in the Philippines. Since then scientists have moved it between many different groups.
Its legs are long and yellow to yellowish brown.
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?Where does Laglaise's garden spider live?
In tropical Asia, from Pakistan and India to China, Indonesia, the Philippines and Papua New Guinea.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eriovixia laglaizei
- Named by
- Simon, 1877
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Eriovixia laglaizei (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 Lawrence Hylton. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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