Heteropoda

Heteropoda is a genus of spiders in the family Sparassidae. Heteropoda spiders have been sighted 81 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Heteropoda includes 1 countries and 7 states in the United States. Heteropoda is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of April.

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 81 confirmed sightings of Heteropoda, 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 81 sightings because of certain Heteropoda sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 8% of the time, Heteropoda spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 77)
Sex: 8 female and 36 male.
Environment: Heteropoda has been sighted 20 times outdoors, and 59 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (15). On flower (1). Saltwater (1). Forest (1). Desert area (2).