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SpeciesAraneaeDesidae
Arthropods

πŸ•·οΈBlack house spider

Badumna insignis (L.Koch, 1872)

Badumna insignis is een spinnensoort die behoort tot de familie Desidae. De spin is een donkere robuuste spin die tot 17 mm groot kan worden. De mannetjes zijn kleiner, die worden 1 cm. Het lichaam is donkerbruin tot zwart. Het achterlijf heeft lichte markeringen en heeft fijn fluweelachtig haar. Ze komen algemeen voor in Nieuw-Zeeland en AustraliΓ«.

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Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Badumna insignis yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
0 kg
Body length
0.01 m
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Black house spider

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

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0 kgaverage
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female.

By sex

  • Female0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Adhesive foot pads and prey capture behaviour; Wolff et al. 2019
Body length
0.01 maverage0–0.01 m Β· range across sexes
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Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.

By sex

  • Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Forster 1970
  • Male0 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Shao et al. 2022; Forster 1970
Volume l
0 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Black house spider yet: shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. β€ΊphylumArthropoda
  3. β€ΊclassArachnida
  4. β€ΊorderAraneae
  5. β€ΊfamilyDesidae
  6. β€ΊgenusBadumna
  7. β€ΊspeciesBadumna insignis
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders Β· Araneae
  2. suborderAraneomorphae
  3. familyDesidae
  4. genusBadumna
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders Β· Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. familyDesidae
  7. genusBadumna
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