Araña (アラニヤ,araniya?) (Spanish: "Spider") is the adult form that submissive Plaga parasites generally mutate towards.[1]
Biology[]
In Spain, these Plagas were found by Leon S. Kennedy to mostly inhabit the higher-ranking Cultists and Combatants. They are the most durable, can spit acid over some distance and detach themselves from their host following death. Notably they are the only plagas who sometimes survive when a flash bang is used though when it fails to kill them it will instead severely weaken them.[1] They are roughly equal to the Guadaña in terms of threat while attached and are relatively weak when detached. Araña can detach themselves from their host's body at will, though this is an endangering procedure for the parasite, which will soon become weak and die if it does not find a new host. Consequently, it will attack potential hosts by lunging at them, intending on entering their bodies through the mouth.[2][3] However, in this form, they are simply too large to enter a human body.
Curiously, several are encountered without hosts at all, as in the case of the battle with Salazar. When without a host, an Araña will eventually die from exposure.
In an alternate account pertaining to their encounter, Araña Plagas can circumvent aforementioned setbacks by latching onto the back of the nearest Ganado, hijacking them with their tendrils instead. While this allows the Araña to survive longer, being occupied by two plagas simultaneously results in the host entering a berserker state, endangering those around them and even themselves. Even when the host is decapitated, they will still persist on attacking any non-infected on sight until the attached Araña is removed.