Fireback huntsman spider
Beregama cordata
The fireback huntsman spider is an Australian spider with eight long legs. It belongs to the huntsman spiders, which run after their food instead of waiting in a web. It looks so much like some of its cousins that you have to look very closely to tell them apart.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Eastern Australia, only in Queensland and New South Wales
What does it eat?
It hunts insects and other small creepy crawlies.
How fast is it?
Fireback huntsman spider about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
It lives only in two parts of Australia: Queensland and New South Wales.
2
It looks very much like a close cousin and like several other Australian huntsman spiders.
3
One way to tell it from some lookalikes is its belly: underneath, it has no black patch.
you asked
Most asked questions about Fireback huntsman spider
?Where does the fireback huntsman spider live?
Only in eastern Australia, in Queensland and New South Wales.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Beregama cordata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Sparassidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Fire-back huntsman
Where the facts come from
- Beregama cordata (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 Greg Tasney. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
If we got something wrong, sorry, we are bug fans, not a science journal. Tell us at [email protected] and we will fix it.
Bug Wiki honey jar For grown-ups: Bug Wiki is free, with no ads and no tracking. A small tip helps keep it online.Leave a tip
European garden spider
Goliath birdeater
Brown recluse
Redback spider
Yellow garden spider
Bold jumping spider
Bristly cutworm moth
North Island coastal copper
Ladybird fly
Small mocis moth
Bush cicada
Sumac flea beetle_1.jpg){kind=link}