Diamond comb-footed spider
The diamond comb-footed spider is a tiny spider from Australia and New Zealand. It builds small, messy webs in flowers and green plants, and sometimes in the corners of house walls. The female is much bigger than the male.
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Fun facts
The female is about 4 millimetres long, but the male is only about 1.5 millimetres.
People carried it by accident from the other side of the world to England and Belgium.
In New Zealand people simply call it the cobweb spider.
In 2008 scientists moved it into a different group of spiders.
Most asked questions about Diamond comb-footed spider
?Where does the diamond comb-footed spider live?
In Australia and New Zealand, and now also in England and Belgium.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cryptachaea veruculata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theridiidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Europe
- Also known as
- Cobweb spider
Where the facts come from
- Cryptachaea veruculata (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 Caroline Harding, MPI. CC BY 3.0 au, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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