Green huntsman spider
This green huntsman spider is a bright green spider with long legs. Being green helps it hide perfectly among leaves and grass. It does not build a web to catch food but hunts on the plants instead.
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Fun facts
The female has a small black dot on the front part of her body, which helps tell her apart from a very similar cousin.
The grown-up male has a dark brown stripe down his back with whitish or grey sides.
Its eight eyes sit in two rows and are ringed with white hairs.
The grown-ups can be found in late winter and early spring.
Most asked questions about Green huntsman spider
?Why is the green huntsman spider green?
Being green helps it hide among leaves and grass while it hunts.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micrommata ligurina
- Named by
- C. L. Koch, 1845
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Sparassidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Micrommata ligurina (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 Lucarelli. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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