Green Tube-web Spider

• Its chelicerae gleam a metallic emerald green, a colour exceedingly rare among European spiders.
• It sits in its tube with its six front legs resting on the radial threads, which act as trip wires, and strikes within hundredths of a second.
• It is one of the European spiders whose bite is distinctly painful, though without serious consequences.
• It is the largest segestriid in Europe: the female reaches a body length of 22 mm.
• It lives inside a silk tube in a crevice, from which radial threads run out as trip wires. When prey brushes against one, it shoots out, bites and retreats into the tube.
• Its chelicerae have a striking metallic green iridescence, which is where the name green-fanged tube web spider comes from.
• It reached Britain through the ports, probably from 1845 onwards, and there it is still associated with port cities.

Skeleton type

Invertebrate - chitin exoskeleton (arachnid)

Habitat and environment

Cracks in walls, boundary walls and bark of the Mediterranean and western Europe

Sources consulted: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segestria_florentina