Costa Rican orangemouth tarantula
Psalmopoeus reduncus
Name means: “it has orange hairs around its mouthparts”
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Costa Rican orangemouth tarantula is a big, chestnut-brown spider that lives up in the trees. It has a bright orange patch of hairs around its mouth. It is a fast runner and would rather dash away than fight.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Costa Rica, Panama and Nicaragua, in the trees
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it hunts insects and other small animals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Costa Rican orangemouth 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
A female can live up to 12 years, but a male only lives up to about 3.
2
It can grow to about 15 centimetres.
3
Young ones often have a golden or copper coloured back end.
4
Many tarantulas can flick itchy hairs at enemies, but this one has none.
5
It is quite shy and stays in its hiding place for most of the day.
you asked
Most asked questions about Costa Rican orangemouth tarantula
?How long does the Costa Rican orangemouth tarantula live?
Females can live up to 12 years, but males only about 3.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Psalmopoeus reduncus
- Named by
- Karsch, 1880
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Psalmopoeus reduncus (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 Hirvenkürpa. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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