Flattened bark spider
Hemicloea rogenhoferi
The flattened bark spider has a body as flat as a pancake. That lets it squeeze into the narrow gaps under tree bark, where it hides. It is a fairly big spider from Australia.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
The east coast of Australia, and now also all over New Zealand, under tree bark
What does it eat?
Like all spiders, it eats insects and other small creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Flattened bark 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
Its flat body is made for slipping into tight cracks under bark.
2
In Australia it lives only along the east coast.
3
It has also moved to New Zealand and now lives on both the North Island and the South Island.
you asked
Most asked questions about Flattened bark spider
?Why is the flattened bark spider so flat?
So it can squeeze into the narrow gaps under tree bark.
?Where does the flattened bark spider live?
On the east coast of Australia, and now in New Zealand too.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Hemicloea rogenhoferi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Trochanteriidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Trochanteriidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Hemicloea rogenhoferi (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 Jon Sullivan from Christchurch, New Zealand. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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