Sun Spider

Namibia 2007United Arab Emirates 1998
Solpuga
Ceroma pictulum
(Solpugidae)
Swift Camel Spider
Galeodes sp.
(Solpugidae)


Solpuga is taxa belonging to a spider rope same as a spider, a mite and a scorpion, and inhabits the desert district of the tropical and subtropical zone from Africa, Middle East, Europe and America, and there is 1,100 kinds of 10 department. It has a huge chelicera to push out forward from the edge before the head, and it's body length is around 5cm, and it is an active predator eating insects, mouse and small bird. The gnathoped develops well, and is covered with hair, and there is a sucker on the tip. The fourth leg is the biggest, and structure of small umbonation called a racket organ forms a line in the lower part of the basal part. In respiratory organs, it has the most developed trachea of all spider rope. In the mating action, if a male touches the female, the female knocks down a body, and the male transfers a spirit parcel to the female reproduction aperture using the chelicera. The female digs the hole deeply and lays eggs when it greet laying eggs. It push forward outbreak in the body of mother, and the egg hatches after laying eggs in approximately 2 days. A threat it put up a most moving passage limb highly and to put up the abdomen works when it take stimulation. A human being causes intense inflammation and dizziness or nausea depending on a case when bitten.

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