Mexican rose tarantula
Aphonopelma pallidum
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersDeserts and dry places8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Mexican rose tarantula is a big hairy spider from Mexico. The grown-up male has brown legs and a dull rose grey front part. That soft pinkish grey colour gave it its name.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Mexico
Length
5 to 5.5 cm (2 to 2.2 in)
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 9 grains of rice in a row🧱as long as 1.5 toy building bricks in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.6 seconds
How big is Mexican rose tarantula compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Mexican rose tarantula about 1.4 km/h (0.87 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
It is listed as threatened in Mexico, so it needs protecting.
2
It is not sold as a pet. For a while another tarantula was sold under its name by mistake, until that one got its own name in 2003.
3
Its body alone is about 5 centimetres long, as long as a grown-up's thumb.
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Most asked questions about Mexican rose tarantula
?How big is the Mexican rose tarantula?
Its body is about 50 to 55 millimetres long, not counting the legs.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Aphonopelma pallidum
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Rose-grey tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Aphonopelma pallidum (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 Jonathan Rodriguez. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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