Attractive running crab spider
Rhysodromus histrio
The attractive running crab spider is a fast little hunting spider. Running crab spiders do not build webs to catch food. Instead they dash after their prey on plants and on the ground.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
North America, Europe and Asia, as far as Siberia and China
What does it eat?
It runs after small insects and grabs them with its front legs.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Attractive running crab spider about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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 lives on three continents: North America, Europe and Asia.
2
Scientists use it as the main example for its whole genus, Rhysodromus.
3
Running crab spiders hold their legs out to the sides, a bit like a crab.
you asked
Most asked questions about Attractive running crab spider
?Does the running crab spider make a web?
No. It hunts by running after insects instead of catching them in a web.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Rhysodromus histrio
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Philodromidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Philodromidae
- Lives on
- North America, Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Rhysodromus histrio (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 LostThorne. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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