Deplector

Female Deplectors are huge crabs with gray armor on their whole bodies, with 12 feet long antennae and 6 feet long claws. Males are much smaller than females, and are slightly bigger than newborn females, and they are small, pale, soft-shelled, and defenseless.


 * Beast Wars: Deplectors were land crabs that lived in the cracks and crevices of Skull Island. While they lacked eyes, the Deplector used their antennae to locate prey, mainly Terapusmordax that flew in giant flocks at night, and often would eat about a dozen at a time. Deplectors used a sticky anchor cord to keep them fastened to the rock walls as they hunted, however they could be severed at will. Females laid hundreds of eggs at a time, and they all left into the chasm after hatching. Male Deplectors are noticeably dwarfed by females, and never leave their larval stage. Instead they inhabit a female's cave and fertilize their eggs.
 * Great War: While the Venture crew members were fighting with the monsters from the bug pit, a Deplector grabbed a venture crew member with its claws and killed him inside the cave.
 * Creature Features
 * Name: Deplector
 * Species: Cave crustacean
 * Status: Deceased

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While females could reach up to eight feet in length, males were scarcely larger than a newly-hatched female. They dwell in the back of the female's cavern, fertilizing their eggs and eating scraps of the female's prey.


 * Curious Crabs: Blind Deplectors are giant, unique, terrestrial crabs that live in the cracked and crumbling rock walls of the abyssal fissures that spider web the shattered island. Hanging in place, with their enormous pincers folded almost Mantis-style in front of them, they wait for small prey to pass the mouths of their holes. Their long antennae are sensitive to vibrations in the air, enabling them to pinpoint prey despite lacking eyes.
 * Monsters Exist: The most common prey are the tiny avian dinosaurs (birds) that fly in thick flocks through the chasms at night, hunting moths. The hunters will find themselves prey, snatched from the air by the switchblade pincers of the Deplectors in the canyon walls. Despite a single crab taking up to a dozen of the little flying dinosaurs in a night, they make barely a dent in the vast predator numbers. When lunging, Deplectors throw all their weight into the attack, relying on elastic and stringy excretions from their abdomens to tether them to the rock, preventing a fall. At will, they can sever these sticky anchor cords to move about freely.
 * Did You Know? Deplector is the female kaiju from King Kong.