Arrow-shaped orbweaver
The arrow-shaped orbweaver is a little spider whose body is shaped like the tip of an arrow. Its back is mostly yellow with black dents. Two big pointy bumps at the back end make the corners of the arrow.
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Fun facts
It has three pairs of bumps on its body, tipped with black and red.
The male is smaller than the female, has no spines and is hardly ever seen.
Its scientific name sagittata means shaped like an arrow.
Most asked questions about Arrow-shaped orbweaver
?How big is the arrow-shaped orbweaver?
The female is up to 9 millimetres long without her legs. The male is only about 5 millimetres.
?Why is it called arrow-shaped?
Its yellow body is a triangle with two pointy back corners, just like an arrowhead.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Micrathena sagittata
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Arrow-shaped micrathena
Where the facts come from
- Micrathena sagittata (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 Diego Huet. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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