Walckenaer's studded triangular spider
Arkys walckenaeri
Name means: “named in honour of Charles Walckenaer, a French scientist”
This small spider from Australia has a body shaped like a triangle. It does not wait in a web. It sits still with its long, curved front legs ready and grabs insects that come close.
Fun fact: spiders are not insects. Insects have six legs, spiders have eight. Everyone calls them bugs anyway!
Lives in
Australia and the island of Java
Length
7 mm (0.28 in)
What does it eat?
It ambushes small insects, grabbing them with its long, curved front legs.
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)
Walckenaer's studded triangular 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
In Queensland and on Java it has an orange or red body with white dots.
2
In western and southern Australia and Tasmania it is pale yellow with hardly any markings.
3
Boys and girls are about the same size, around 7 millimetres long.
you asked
Most asked questions about Walckenaer's studded triangular spider
?How big is it?
Small. Both males and females are about 7 millimetres long.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Arkys walckenaeri
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Arkyidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Arkyidae
- Lives on
- Australia and Oceania, Asia
- Also known as
- Walckenaer's studded arkys
Where the facts come from
- Arkys walckenaeri (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 iNaturalist Australia user: wendy_moore. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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