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SpeciesAraneaeDesidae
Arthropods

🕷️Black house spider

Badumna insignis (L.Koch, 1872)

Badumna insignis är en spindelart som först beskrevs av Ludwig Carl Christian Koch 1872. Badumna insignis ingår i släktet Badumna och familjen Desidae. Inga underarter finns listade.

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≈ 1/310,180th of your weight
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.

Body mass
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 · 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
Details ↓

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. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyDesidae
  6. ›genusBadumna
  7. ›speciesBadumna insignis
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. suborderAraneomorphae
  3. familyDesidae
  4. genusBadumna
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. familyDesidae
  7. genusBadumna
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