Sparassidae
(Giant Crab Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Sparassidae

Common Name (AAS)

Giant Crab Spiders

Other Common Names

Huntsman Spiders

Author

Philipp Bertkau, 1872

Sightings Overview

There have been 149 confirmed sightings of Sparassidae (Giant Crab Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 29, 2025 by Spider ID member sing2meomuse. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 149 sightings because of certain Sparassidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 10% of the time, Sparassidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 144)
• Sex: 9 female and 46 male.
• Environment: Sparassidae has been sighted 60 times outdoors, and 93 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (42). On flower (1). Ground layer (1). Under rock or debris (4). Saltwater (1). Forest (1). Desert area (10).

Location and Range

Sparassidae (Giant Crab Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Sparassidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Texas.

Seasonality

Sparassidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

• January: 5
• February: 10
• March: 29
• April: 34
• May: 30
• June: 8
• July: 4
• August: 2
• September: 2
• October: 8
• November: 4
• December: 8