Trinidad dwarf tiger tarantula
Cyriocosmus elegans
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Trinidad dwarf tiger tarantula is a tiny tarantula from Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago. Most tarantulas are big, but this one fits easily in the palm of your hand, legs and all. It lives in a burrow it digs in the ground.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, in burrows in the ground
What does it eat?
It hunts small insects. Even its babies can eat fruit flies.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Trinidad dwarf tiger tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 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
From the tip of one leg to the tip of the opposite leg, a grown-up one is only about 4 to 5 centimetres across.
2
It grows up fast for a tarantula. Some are fully grown in just one year.
3
Its babies are tiny, only about 2 to 3 millimetres across with their legs.
you asked
Most asked questions about Trinidad dwarf tiger tarantula
?How big is the Trinidad dwarf tiger tarantula?
With its legs spread out, it is only about 4 to 5 centimetres across, which is very small for a tarantula.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyriocosmus elegans
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
Where the facts come from
- Cyriocosmus elegans (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 Morkelsker. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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