Western variable wolf spider
Venator immansuetus
The western variable wolf spider is a wolf spider that lives only in Australia. Wolf spiders do not sit in webs. They run about on the ground and hunt, a bit like little wolves.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Only the south-west of Western Australia
What does it eat?
It hunts insects and other small creatures, chasing or pouncing on them instead of using a web.
How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
Western variable wolf spider about 2 km/h (1.2 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
Its first name was Lycosa immansueta, given by Eugène Simon in 1909.
2
In 2015 a scientist moved it into a group called Venator, which is Latin for hunter.
3
Wolf spider mothers carry their babies around on their backs.
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Most asked questions about Western variable wolf spider
?Where does the western variable wolf spider live?
Only in the south-west corner of Western Australia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Venator immansuetus
- Named by
- Simon, 1909
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Lycosidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Lycosidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Venator immansuetus (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 Donald Hobern from Copenhagen, Denmark. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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