Dark sheetwebber
Euprosthenopsis pulchella
Name means: “pulchella is Latin for beautiful or pretty”
The dark sheetwebber is a spider from southern Africa that spins a flat sheet of web. It builds its sheet low down in bushes, or between big tufts of grass. It is a cousin of the nursery-web spiders.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, in bushes and grassland
What does it eat?
It catches insects that land on or fall into its sheet web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Dark sheetwebber 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 from near the sea up to about 1550 metres high.
2
The female was described in 1902, but the male was only described in 2014.
3
It has been found in more than 10 nature reserves, and it is not in danger.
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Most asked questions about Dark sheetwebber
?Where does the dark sheetwebber live?
In South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini, in bushes and between grass tussocks.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Euprosthenopsis pulchella
- Named by
- Pocock, 1902
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pisauridae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pisauridae
- Lives on
- Africa
- Also known as
- Common Euprosthenopsis nursery-web spider
Where the facts come from
- Euprosthenopsis pulchella (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 Peter Webb. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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