Northern Yellow Sac Spider
Cheiracanthium mildei
Arachnida
COMMON
Stats
- Lifespan
- Annual
- Size
- Small
- Diet
- Insectivore
- Activity
- Nocturnal
- Social
- Solitary
- Biome
- Temperate forest
- Range
- Europe
- Movement
- Climbing
- Breeding
- Egg-laying
- Defense
- Venom
- Status
- Common
About
The Northern Yellow Sac Spider is a species of spider from the family Cheiracanthiidae, commonly known as the Northern Yellow Sac Spider, a name it partially shares with many other spiders of its genus. Alternatively, it is also called the long-legged sac spider.
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
- Cheiracanthiidae
- Genus
- Cheiracanthium
- Species
- Cheiracanthium mildei