Spot-legged bromeliad spider
Cupiennius getazi
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The spot-legged bromeliad spider is a hunting spider from the warm rainforests of Central America. Like every spider, it has eight legs. It lives in only two countries, Costa Rica and Panama.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Costa Rica and Panama, mostly on the Atlantic side in the lowlands
What does it eat?
It hunts insects and other small creatures. Like all spiders, it does not eat plants.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Spot-legged bromeliad spider about 1.2 km/h (0.75 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
You are most likely to find it on the eastern side of Costa Rica and Panama, the side that faces the Atlantic Ocean.
2
It is more common in the low, warm lands than up in the mountains.
3
At the southern end of where it lives, it can be found around the Panama Canal.
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Most asked questions about Spot-legged bromeliad spider
?Where does the spot-legged bromeliad spider live?
In Costa Rica and Panama, mostly in the warm lowlands on the Atlantic side.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Cupiennius getazi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Ctenidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Ctenidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Cupiennius getazi (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 Gobygore. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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