Cheiracanthium
(Long-legged Sac Spiders)

Cheiracanthium, commonly known as Long-legged Sac Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae. Cheiracanthium spiders have been sighted 139 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Cheiracanthium includes 8 countries and 28 states in the United States. Cheiracanthium is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Genus: Cheiracanthium

Common Name (AAS)

Long-legged Sac Spiders

Other Common Names

Yellow Sac Spiders, Prowling Spiders, Sac Spiders

Author

Carl Ludwig Koch, 1839

Sightings Overview

There have been 139 confirmed sightings of Cheiracanthium (Long-legged Sac Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 8, 2025 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 139 sightings because of certain Cheiracanthium sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 13% of the time, Cheiracanthium spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 139)
Sex: 1 female and 38 male.
Environment: Cheiracanthium has been sighted 15 times outdoors, and 125 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (12). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1).

Location and Range

Cheiracanthium (Long-legged Sac Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Austria, Canada, Hungary, Israel, Macedonia, Romania, Spain, United States.

Cheiracanthium has also been sighted in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.