Grizzled pinktoe tarantula
Avicularia variegata
Eats: Other bugs and small animalsSpidersRainforests and jungles8 legsNot an insect, but a bug cousin
The grizzled pinktoe tarantula is a hairy spider from the Amazon rainforest. Pinktoes are tree-living tarantulas. Some of these spiders have bright red hairs on their round back end.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Venezuela and northern Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest
What does it eat?
Like other tarantulas, it catches insects and other small animals.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Grizzled pinktoe tarantula about 1.5 km/h (0.93 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
People keep it as a pet, and it has been sold under several different names.
2
For a long time it was thought to be just a variety of another pinktoe. In 2017 scientists showed it is its own species.
3
One way to tell it from its cousin is that its first and last legs are about the same length.
4
It was first described from an expedition to the Amazon in 1896.
you asked
Most asked questions about Grizzled pinktoe tarantula
?Where does the grizzled pinktoe live?
In Venezuela and northern Brazil, in the Amazon rainforest.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Avicularia variegata
- Named by
- Pickard-Cambridge, 1896
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Theraphosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Theraphosidae
- Lives on
- South America
- Also known as
- Grizzled pinktoe, Brick red pink toe, Manaus brick-red rump tree spider
Where the facts come from
- Avicularia variegata (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 original: C. S. Fukushima processed image: Peter Coxhead. CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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