Long-bellied cyclosa spider
The long-bellied cyclosa spider is an orb weaver, a spider that spins round webs. Its belly is long and thin, much longer than it is wide. It likes to build its web in dark corners near buildings.
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Fun facts
The female is about three times as long as the male.
Its web can be up to about 18 centimetres across and has 40 to 60 spokes.
It does not always sit in the middle of its web. It often sits to one side, sometimes with a leaf in the web to help it hide.
The female's belly is almost three times longer than it is wide, which gives the spider its name.
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Females are about 11 millimetres long. Males are much smaller, under 4 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyclosa bifida
- Named by
- Doleschall, 1859
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Cyclosa bifida (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 Workman, Thomas.. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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