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Broad-faced Sac Spider
Broad-faced Sac Spider
Trachelas tranquillus
Arachnida
UNCOMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Annual
Size
Small
Diet
Insectivore
Activity
Nocturnal
Social
Solitary
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
North America
Movement
Walking
Breeding
Egg-laying
Defense
Venom
Status
Uncommon

About

The broad-faced sac spider is a true spider found in the United States and Canada. Its body is about the size of a dime, and it makes a large, flat sac of silk to store its eggs.

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
Trachelidae
Genus
Trachelas
Species
Trachelas tranquillus