Kukulcania

Kukulcania is a genus of spiders in the family Filistatidae. Kukulcania spiders have been sighted 190 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Kukulcania includes 5 countries and 17 states in the United States. Kukulcania is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Filistatidae
Genus: Kukulcania

Author

Pekka T. Lehtinen, 1967

Sightings Overview

There have been 190 confirmed sightings of Kukulcania, with the most recent sighting submitted on July 29, 2023 by Spider ID member hollyford77. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 190 sightings because of certain Kukulcania sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 27% of the time, Kukulcania spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 187)
Sex: 78 female and 54 male.
Environment: Kukulcania has been sighted 49 times outdoors, and 146 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (31). Low foliage (2). High foliage (1). Ground layer (5). Under rock or debris (4). Forest (1). Desert area (5).

Location and Range

Kukulcania has been sighted in the following countries: Argentina, Bermuda, Mexico, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands.

Kukulcania has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia.