Flat abdomen crab spider
Camaricus maugei
Name means: “named in honour of a man called René Maugé de Cely”
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The flat abdomen crab spider is a colourful crab spider from tropical Asia. Its front part is bright red, and its black back end has a yellow or reddish cross on it. Like other crab spiders, it does not spin a web to catch food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Tropical Asia, from India to Vietnam and the islands of Indonesia
What does it eat?
It sits still and grabs insects that come close, like other crab spiders do.
How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Flat abdomen crab spider about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Its back end is egg-shaped and gets wider towards the tail.
2
Its jaws are black with a big red spot on the side.
3
It even lives on Krakatau, a volcano island in Indonesia.
4
Males and females have differently coloured legs.
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Most asked questions about Flat abdomen crab spider
?Where does the flat abdomen crab spider live?
In tropical Asia, from India to Vietnam and on Indonesian islands such as Sumatra and Java.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Camaricus maugei
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Camaricus maugei (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 gbohne from Berlin, Germany. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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