Common white-flanked water spider
This spider lives next to water in tropical Asia. It has a shiny black stripe down its back with a white stripe on each side, so it is easy to recognise. Its long legs are yellowish brown.
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Fun facts
It is called a fishing spider because it can catch small fish.
The mother carries her egg sac under her body, holding it in her jaws.
Wolf spiders look a bit like it, but they fasten their egg sac to the back end of their body instead.
It lives in a long stretch of Asia, from India all the way to the Philippines.
Most asked questions about Common white-flanked water spider
?Can a spider really catch fish?
Yes. This spider lives by the water and catches small fish as well as insects.
?Where does the white-flanked water spider live?
In tropical Asia, from India to the Philippines, usually close to water.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nilus albocinctus
- Named by
- Doleschall
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pisauridae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Fishing spider
Where the facts come from
- Nilus albocinctus (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 Self. CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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