South American toothed hacklemesh weaver
Metaltella simoni
The South American toothed hacklemesh weaver is a small brown spider with a mottled grey back and faint pale arrow marks near its tail end. It likes to hide under logs on the ground.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
From Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina, now also the southern USA, under logs on the ground
Length
7 to 9 mm (0.28 to 0.35 in)
What does it eat?
It catches small insects and other little creatures.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍚as long as 1.5 grains of rice in a row🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.3 seconds⚡moves 34 times its own body length every second
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How fast is it?
A tortoise about 0.3 km/h (0.19 mph)
South American toothed hacklemesh weaver about 1.1 km/h (0.68 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
It was first found in North America in Louisiana in 1944.
2
By 2008 it had become widespread along the coast of southern California.
3
Its side eyes are bigger than its middle eyes.
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Most asked questions about South American toothed hacklemesh weaver
?Where does the hacklemesh weaver live?
Under logs on the ground, in South America and now also the southern USA.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Metaltella simoni
- Named by
- Keyserling, 1878
- Group
- Spiders
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae
- Lives on
- South America, North America
Where the facts come from
- Metaltella simoni (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 Marshal Hedin. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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