Pisaura lama is a small nursery web spider from East Asia, found in the Russian Far East, China, Korea, and Japan. You won't find it in the United States. Like its relatives, it hunts without a web, and the female carries her egg sac in her jaws.
Appearance
- Appearance
- Up to about 0.4 in (1 cm) long, with long legs. The is yellowish brown with a yellow stripe down the middle.
Where it lives
- Typical habitats
- Grassland
- Pond edges
- Woodland undergrowth
- Range
- Russian Far East, China, Korea, and Japan. It does not occur in North America.
Behavior
- Activity
- A wandering hunter that pounces on prey rather than building a web; mostly active after dark.
Life cycle
- Reproduction
- In Japan, males have been observed wrapping a captured insect in silk and offering it to a female as a gift before mating. The female wraps a few dozen eggs in silk and carries the egg sac in her jaws.
Conservation
- IUCN Red List
- NENot EvaluatedNot yet assessed
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