Eurasian leaflitter crab spider
Ozyptila praticola
This crab spider is tiny and dark reddish brown, like a bit of fallen leaf. It hunts low down among the plants on the forest floor. Like other crab spiders, it holds its legs out to the sides like a little crab.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Europe and the Middle East, in woods among low plants and under bark
Length
3 to 4 mm (0.12 to 0.16 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects and other tiny creatures among the low plants and leaves.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 16 seconds
How big is Eurasian leaflitter crab spider compared to YOU?
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How fast is it?
A garden snail about 0.05 km/h (0.03 mph)
Eurasian leaflitter crab spider about 0.23 km/h (0.14 mph)
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
A person walking about 5 km/h (3.1 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
The female is a little bigger than the male: she grows up to 4 millimetres, he only up to 3.
2
The mother lays her egg sac under bark or on low branches and stays close to guard it.
3
You can find grown-up spiders almost all year round.
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Most asked questions about Eurasian leaflitter crab spider
?How big is the leaflitter crab spider?
Very small, only 3 to 4 millimetres. The females are a bit bigger than the males.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Ozyptila praticola
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Thomisidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Thomisidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia
Where the facts come from
- Ozyptila praticola (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 André Karwath aka Aka. CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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