Creepy insects Phryne (20 photos)

Look at these simpatyashek. This Phryne or zhgutonogie spiders (Amblypygi) - a small detachment of tropical arachnids.

Phryne mostly nocturnal predators; the food they serve insects, including termites. Mining grabs pedipalps and chelicerae torn unguiculate segments and pedipalps. Phryne willing to drink water. Falling under the bright lights, Phryne freezes rasplastyvayas, but if it is to touch, quickly runs away. Phryne usually move sideways like a crab. In this one, "tendril" they sent to the direction of motion, and the other continuously feels the neighborhood.
Courtship ritual is the male pedipalps brings the female to deferred spermatophores. Females lay up to 60 eggs, which are under the belly in pergamentopodobnoy shell. Juveniles moved back to his mother; if a young Phryne falls from the back to his first molt, the female eats it. After molting young Phryne diverge. Puberty usually occurs only on the 3 year life.









































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