Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Sparassidae
- Genus: Heteropoda
Author
Pierre André Latreille, 1804
Sightings Overview
There have been 165 confirmed sightings of Heteropoda, with the most recent sighting submitted on November 16, 2023 by Spider ID member koaung18322. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 165 sightings because of certain Heteropoda sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 7% of the time, Heteropoda spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 160)
- Sex: 14 female and 53 male.
- Environment: Heteropoda has been sighted 49 times outdoors, and 120 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (24). On flower (1). Low foliage (6). High foliage (4). Ground layer (6). Under rock or debris (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (6).
Location and Range
Heteropoda has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Bahamas, Belize, Brazil, Denmark, Ecuador, French Polynesia, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mexico, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Venezuela, Vietnam.
Heteropoda has also been sighted in the following states: California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Ohio, Texas.
Seasonality
Heteropoda has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 10
- February: 14
- March: 32
- April: 43
- May: 33
- June: 2
- July: 3
- August: 3
- September: 1
- October: 4
- November: 8
- December: 7