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Bleeding Heart Spider

Nigma puella

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) ivan-ciano, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in France.January 7, February 16, March 50, April 99, May 129, June 33, July 9, August 2, September 10, October 13, November 16, December 6.
France390
United States377
Alaska377
United Kingdom309
England303
Occitanie161
Spain152
Portugal101
Italy94
Cataluña/Catalunya73

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyMeshweavers · Dictynidae
GenusNigma

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Bleeding Heart Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.