🕷️Woodlouse spider
The woodlouse spider is a species of spider that preys primarily upon woodlice. Other common names refer to variations on the common name of its prey, including woodlouse hunter, sowbug hunter, sowbug killer, pillbug hunter and slater spider.
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Dysdera crocata yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Woodlouse spider
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.01 maverage0.01–0.01 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Adhesive foot pads and prey capture behaviour; Wolff et al. 2013
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spiders from Macaronesia and Iberian Peninsula - Morphometry; Macías-Hernández et al. 2020
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Macías-Hernández et al. 2020
- Female0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Macías-Hernández et al. 2020
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Woodlouse spider yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyDysderidae
- ›genusDysdera
- ›speciesDysdera crocata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- superfamilyDysderoidea
- familyDysderidae
- genusDysdera
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- superfamilyDysderoidea
- familyDysderidae
- genusDysdera
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