Masked crab spider
The masked crab spider is a small crab spider from East and Southeast Asia. The female is yellowish white with brown markings, and grown-up females often have two black spots joined by a bluish line. It is a very caring mother that guards its eggs.
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Fun facts
The mother makes a nest by pulling the edges of a leaf together with silk, with her eggs inside.
She will not leave her eggs, however much she is disturbed.
The males are smaller and much darker than the females.
Baby spiders, only about 2 millimetres long, spend the winter hiding under tree bark.
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?How big is the masked crab spider?
Females grow up to about 9 millimetres. Males are smaller, about 6 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Thomisus labefactus
- Named by
- Karsch, 1881
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Thomisus labefactus (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 池田正樹 ( talk )masaki ikeda. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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