Stats

Lifespan

Annual

Size

Small

Diet

Insectivore

Activity

Nocturnal

Social

Solitary

Biome

Subtropical forest

Range

North America

Movement

Running

Breeding

Egg-laying

Defense

Venom

Status

Rare

About

This spider lives among garden foliage and inside homes across North America. It hunts by sprinting across leaves to ambush small insects with lightning speed.

Life cycle

1. 1.
   egg sac

   A silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
2. 2.
   juvenile

   A spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
3. 3.
   subadult

   A near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
4. 4.
   adult

   Fully grown after its final molt.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Anyphaenidae

Genus

Hibana

Species

Hibana velox