Red House Spider
Nesticodes rufipes
Arachnida
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1-2 years
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Tropical rainforest
- Range
- Worldwide
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Venom
- Status
- Uncommon
About
The red house spider is a small arachnid that dwells in buildings and gardens. It constructs messy, tangled webs to trap prey much larger than its own body size.
Life cycle
- 1.egg sacA silk-wrapped egg sac shelters a clutch of eggs until the young are ready to emerge.
- 2.juvenileA spiderling emerges from the egg sac already in miniature adult form and starts catching prey almost immediately.
- 3.subadultA near-adult arachnid molts through several instars, growing larger and developing mature markings.
- 4.adultFully grown after its final molt.
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Taxonomy
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Arachnida
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Theridiidae
- Genus
- Nesticodes
- Species
- Nesticodes rufipes