User blog comment:BannedLagiacrus/Monster Appreciation Week: Nerscylla/@comment-4702773-20150429142121/@comment-7584137-20150429180117

My guess is the same one as Dax´s. Maybe it was kind of hard to animate eight legs during the fight. I know this has happened in other fictional works like Disney´s The Little Mermaid (yeah that was a long time ago but still...). Or maybe... this thing isn´t a spider at all, y´know. It just resembles one. There MUST be smaller and even "normal" spiders in the MH world, since you can catch spider webs that don´t look different from RL-spider webs. The MH civilization may just refer to it as a spider, like: "That thing looks like a spider... well, may as well just call it that".