Common triangular spider
The triangular spider is a small, colourful spider from Australia. Its body can be yellow, orange or red, with pale, jewel-like markings on a heart-shaped back. Instead of waiting in a big web, it sits on a leaf and waits to grab its dinner.
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Its two front pairs of legs are big and strong for grabbing insects, while its back legs are much smaller.
It is an ambush hunter. It keeps very still and grabs small insects that come close.
Sometimes it just hangs from a few threads of silk.
The mother makes a pinkish cream egg sac about 8 millimetres wide, with around 70 tiny eggs inside.
Each egg is less than 1 millimetre across.
Most asked questions about Common triangular spider
?How big is the triangular spider?
The female's body is about 8 millimetres long and the male's about 5,5 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arkys lancearius
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Arkyidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Arkyidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Triangular spider
Where the facts come from
- Arkys lancearius (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 Peter Woodard. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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