Pitch black wallpaper spider
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Pitch black wallpaper spider ( Atypus piceus ) |
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The pitch black wallpapering spider ( Atypus piceus ) is a species of spider belonging to the wallpapering spider family . It is widespread in Europe as far as Moldova and Iran .
description
The males reach a body size of up to 10 mm, while females can grow up to 15 mm. Young animals and females are dark brown and males deep black, more rarely also reddish brown. Atypus piceus females can live to be over 10 years old.
The posterior spinnerets usually appear to be four-membered, but are actually only three-membered.
Way of life
Adult animals live in tubes about 30 cm deep and about 10 mm in diameter. The above-ground part of the catch hose is about 7 to 9 cm long. The underground living tube can go 20 to 25 cm deep. The mating season is between June and July, when the males start looking for females. A female can have 70 to 160 offspring in a year. The young hatch during autumn and hibernate in their mother's den without feeding. In spring they leave the mother's den.
Danger
- Germany: 3 (endangered)
- Bavaria:
- Alpine foothills / Alps: 2 (endangered)
- Layer level country: 3 (endangered)
- East Bavarian basement: 2 (endangered)
- Tertiary hill country / gravel slabs: 2 (endangered)
- Bavaria:
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Bellmann, H. (1997). Cosmos Atlas Arachnids of Europe. Cosmos .
- ↑ a b Information according to www.araneae.unibe.ch
- ^ Poster wallpaper spider , Arachnologische Gesellschaft e. V. (PDF; 8.0 MB), accessed on August 27, 2017.
- ↑ Blick, T. and M. Scheidler: Red List of Endangered Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) Bavaria (pdf; 121 kB) Bavarian State Office for the Environment. Retrieved February 24, 2013.