Giant cellar spider
Artema atlanta
The giant cellar spider is a daddy-long-legs spider with super long, thin legs. Its front legs are about six and a half times as long as its body. It is the biggest spider of its whole family in the world.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Warm places all around the world, on every continent except Antarctica
Length
0.8 to 1.1 cm (0.31 to 0.43 in)
What does it eat?
Like other spiders, it catches and eats small insects and other little creatures.
How big is it?
How long is it?
🍚as long as 2 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 2.8 seconds⚡moves 33 times its own body length every second
How big is Giant cellar spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Giant cellar spider about 1.3 km/h (0.81 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 body is only about 1 centimetre long, but its legs are very much longer.
2
In 2004, two of these spiders arrived in England hidden in a shipping container.
3
It was first described from Brazil, but scientists think it first came from Africa, Europe or Asia.
you asked
Most asked questions about Giant cellar spider
?How big is the giant cellar spider?
Its body is 8 to 11 millimetres long, and its front legs are much, much longer.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Artema atlanta
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Pholcidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Pholcidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Giant daddy-long-legs spider
Where the facts come from
- Artema atlanta (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 Andrew Meeds. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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