Cupiennius

Cupiennius is a genus of spiders in the family Trechaleidae. Cupiennius spiders have been sighted 6 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Cupiennius includes 3 countries and 0 states in the United States. Cupiennius is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trechaleidae
Genus: Cupiennius

Author

Simon, 1891

Sightings Overview

There have been 6 confirmed sightings of Cupiennius, with the most recent sighting submitted on January 3, 2019 by Spider ID member schremp18. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 6 sightings because of certain Cupiennius sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 0% of the time, Cupiennius spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 6)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Cupiennius has been sighted 6 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). High foliage (1). Under rock or debris (1).