Wall Spider
Oecobius navus
Arachnida
UNCOMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- 1 year
- Size
- Tiny
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Cathemeral
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Worldwide
- Movement
- Running
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Speed
- Status
- Uncommon
About
Wall Spiders are tiny spiders that live in and on walls. They are incredibly fast and can leap up to 10 times their body length in a single bound.
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
- Oecobiidae
- Genus
- Oecobius
- Species
- Oecobius navus