Short-bodied cellar spider
Physocyclus globosus
The short-bodied cellar spider is a small brown spider with a short, round body. It lives in caves and buildings in the warm parts of the world. A black line runs down the middle of its back.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Warm parts of the world, in caves and buildings
Length
6 mm (0.24 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects and other tiny creatures in its untidy web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.9 seconds⚡moves 43 times its own body length every second
How big is Short-bodied cellar spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Short-bodied cellar spider about 0.93 km/h (0.58 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
Its eight eyes sit close together on a little bump on its face.
2
It lives in warm countries all around the world.
3
Its body is only about 6 millimetres long.
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Most asked questions about Short-bodied cellar spider
?Where does the short-bodied cellar spider live?
In caves and buildings in the warm parts of the world.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Physocyclus globosus
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pholcidae
- Lives on
- Africa, Asia, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Physocyclus globosus (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 Stvk Công Cuối (VN). CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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