Steindachner's ebony tarantula
Aphonopelma steindachneri
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
Steindachner's ebony tarantula is a big, velvety black or deep brown spider. It lives in a burrow in dry ground in California and Mexico. In summer and autumn the males leave home to look for a partner.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Southern California and Baja California in Mexico, in dry land
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it catches insects and other small animals near its burrow.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Steindachner's ebony tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 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
With its legs stretched out, it is about 12 to 13 cm across.
2
It lives mostly around the big cities of Los Angeles and San Diego.
3
Big spider wasps hunt it, and so do centipedes and scorpions.
4
The males are most active from July to October.
you asked
Most asked questions about Steindachner's ebony tarantula
?How big is Steindachner's ebony tarantula?
With its legs stretched out it measures about 12 to 13 cm.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphonopelma steindachneri
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Aphonopelma steindachneri (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 Chris A. Hamilton, Brent E. Hendrixson, Jason E. Bond. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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