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 182 confirmed sightings of Heteropoda, with the most recent sighting submitted on May 8, 2025 by Spider ID member gianni. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 182 sightings because of certain Heteropoda sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 7% of the time, Heteropoda spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 177)
- Sex: 15 female and 60 male.
- Environment: Heteropoda has been sighted 52 times outdoors, and 134 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (26). On flower (1). Low foliage (6). High foliage (4). Ground layer (7). Under rock or debris (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (6).
Location and Range
Heteropoda has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, 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: 13
- February: 15
- March: 34
- April: 44
- May: 34
- June: 3
- July: 3
- August: 4
- September: 1
- October: 7
- November: 9
- December: 10