Shooting Spiner (Male)

Shooting Spiner (Male)
Appears in	Hey! Pikmin
Scientific name	Himeagea mittetsia
Family	Wracknid
Areas	The Lonely Tower, Steel Pipe Forest
Attacks	Poison Pikmin

The Shooting Spiner (ブッパナシグモ（オス）^?, lit.: "Firing Spider (Male)") is an enemy encountered in Hey! Pikmin. The males of this species are brown in color and attack differently from the females. It also has red eyes, and small legs with yellow stripes.

StatsEdit

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Weight	Max. carriers	Seeds	Value	Health	Regen.
N/A	N/A	N/A	× 0	Unknown	Unknown

BehaviorEdit

The male Shooting Spiners move up and down webs, similar to the females. However, instead of attempting to stab Pikmin with their legs, they shoot small toxic clouds horizontally.

LocationsEdit

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StrategyEdit

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Shooting Spiners can be defeated with a single Pikmin throw. As the males do not stick their legs out, they are considerably easier to kill than the females.

Notes

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“Usually it's content to dangle from the ceiling, but if you approach, it will fire poison clouds at you. This one looks much more drab that his female counterpart. I can relate.”

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NamingEdit

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Common name: Shooting Spiner (Male). Spiner is in reference to how it spins webs. Shooting references the toxic clouds they shoot at the Pikmin.
Japanese nickname: ブッパナシグモ（オス）^?, lit.: "Firing Spider (Male)".
Japanese name: ワタトバシグモ^?, lit.: "Cotton Launching Spider".
Scientific name: Himeagea mittetsia . The species name mittetsia may be an illusion to "mitten", comparing their fuzzy appearance to that of a mitten.
Internal names: Unknown.
Prerelease: None.

Names in other languagesEdit

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ブッパナシグモ（オス）^? Buppanashi Gumo (Osu)	Firing Spider (Male)
Dutch	Mannetjesschrikspin	Male Spiner
French	Tisserand tireur mâle	Male weaver shooter
German	Schreckspinne (männlich)	Frightspider (male)
Italian	Tessitore nocivo	Harmful weaver
Korean	발사거미(수컷)
Spanish	Cardándula (macho)	From cardo (thistle) and tarántula (tarantula)