Victorian huntsman spider
Isopedella victorialis
The Victorian huntsman spider is a huntsman spider from the state of Victoria in Australia. Like other huntsmen, it does not wait in a web but goes out hunting. It has also ended up in New Zealand by accident.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Victoria in Australia, and brought to New Zealand by accident
What does it eat?
Like other huntsman spiders, it hunts insects at night.
How fast is it?
Victorian huntsman spider about 3 km/h (1.9 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
In the wild it lives only in Victoria, Australia.
2
People carried it to New Zealand without meaning to.
3
It was described in 1993, and the very first one is kept in the Museum of Victoria.
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Most asked questions about Victorian huntsman spider
?Where does the Victorian huntsman spider live?
In Victoria, Australia, and now also in New Zealand.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Isopedella victorialis
- Named by
- Hirst, 1993
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Sparassidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Sparassidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Isopedella victorialis (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 (c) lesleymarr, some rights reserved (CC BY). CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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