Spotted ground swift spider
Nyssus coloripes
The spotted ground swift spider is a small black spider with white spots and orange front legs. It is very fast on its feet. It runs around in the daytime looking for food.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Australia and New Zealand, in grass and in houses
Length
6 to 7 mm (0.24 to 0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It hunts small animals by running after them, mostly without a web.
How big is it?
How long is it?
💅small enough to sit on your fingernail🍽️could run across a dinner table in 3.6 seconds⚡moves 40 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)
Spotted ground swift spider about 1 km/h (0.62 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 came to New Zealand from Australia around 1943 and now lives there for good.
2
In New Zealand it is often found inside homes.
3
It may use a few silk threads to feel when prey is near.
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Most asked questions about Spotted ground swift spider
?How big is the spotted ground swift spider?
About 6 to 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Nyssus coloripes
- Named by
- Walckenaer, 1805
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Corinnidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Corinnidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania
- Also known as
- Orange-legged swift spider, Fleet footed spider, Painted swift spider
Where the facts come from
- Nyssus coloripes (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 dr.scott.mills. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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