Ant-like crab spider
The ant-like crab spider is a small orange-yellow spider from Asia. It belongs to the crab spider family, but it is dressed up to look like an ant. People have even said it looks a bit like a jumping spider.
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Fun facts
Its eyes sit on little pale bumps on its head.
Its second pair of legs is a little longer than the first pair, and the third pair is the shortest of all.
Its back part is narrow and twice as long as its front part, which helps it look like an ant.
Scientists first gave it a different name in 1873 and moved it to its own group in 1895.
Most asked questions about Ant-like crab spider
?Why is it called the ant-like crab spider?
It belongs to the crab spider family, but its narrow body and long legs make it look like an ant.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Amyciaea forticeps
- Named by
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Amyciaea forticeps (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 ManaskaMukhopadhyay. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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