Colombian dwarf tiger tarantula
Cyriocosmus leetzi
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The Colombian dwarf tiger tarantula is a small tarantula from the rainforests of Colombia. Its back end is reddish orange with eight black stripes that spread out from the middle like a little sun. Its legs are black or grey with soft grey hairs.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Colombia and maybe Venezuela, in humid rainforest
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it catches insects and other small creatures.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Colombian 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
Females can live 5 to 7 years, but males only live 2 to 3 years.
2
It spins lots of silk and can build tricky tunnels.
3
When it gets scared, it runs to its hiding place instead of flicking hairs like many other tarantulas.
4
It lives in a rainforest where it is warm, about 25 degrees, and it rains a lot.
you asked
Most asked questions about Colombian dwarf tiger tarantula
?How long does the Colombian dwarf tiger tarantula live?
Females live 5 to 7 years. Males live 2 to 3 years.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cyriocosmus leetzi
- Named by
- Vol, 1999
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Colombian dwarf tiger, Venezuelan dwarf beauty tarantula
Where the facts come from
- Cyriocosmus leetzi (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 Sarha Bernal. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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