Indian violet tarantula
Chilobrachys fimbriatus
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Indian violet tarantula is a big hairy spider from the warm, rainy west coast of India. It has a golden front, a reddish-brown body with black stripes and bluish-grey legs. It digs tunnels in the ground and comes out at night.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Only in India, in the hot, rainy tropical forests near the west coast
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals, mostly at night.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Indian violet 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
Females can live 12 to 15 years, but males only live to about 5.
2
It builds amazing tunnels and webs under the ground.
3
It hides in its tunnel during the day and may come outside at night.
4
Its home is a warm place with coconut palms, fig trees, kingfishers and giant squirrels.
you asked
Most asked questions about Indian violet tarantula
?How long does an Indian violet tarantula live?
Females can live 12 to 15 years. Males live about 5 years.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Chilobrachys fimbriatus
- Named by
- Pocock, 1899
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- Asia
- Also known as
- Indian violet earth tiger tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Chilobrachys fimbriatus (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 Tom M.. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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