Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Mygalomorphae
- Family: Theraphosidae
- Genus: Poecilotheria
Other Common Names
Tiger Spiders
Author
Simon, 1885
Sightings Overview
There have been 2 confirmed sightings of Poecilotheria (Tiger Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 19, 2018 by Spider ID member rickcwest. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 2 sightings because of certain Poecilotheria sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 0% of the time, Poecilotheria spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 2)
- Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Poecilotheria has been sighted 4 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
- Outdoors: High foliage (2). Forest (2).
Location and Range
Poecilotheria (Tiger Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: India, Sri Lanka.
Seasonality
Poecilotheria has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January:
- February:
- March:
- April: 1
- May:
- June:
- July:
- August:
- September:
- October:
- November:
- December: 1