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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Huntsmen Spiders (Sparassidae)

Family Sparassidae - Huntsmen Spiders

Classification · Other Common Names · Numbers · Size · Identification · Range · Food · See Also · Internet References · Works Cited

Olios giganteus - Olios giganteus - male

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynae)

Family Sparassidae (Huntsmen Spiders)

Other Common Names

Giant Crab Spiders

Numbers

5 genera in BugGuide's range (North America north of Mexico).

Size

7.0-50.0 mm(1)

Identification

Not diagnostic, but some helpful features:(1)

2 claws

8 eyes

Legs laterigrade

Similar spiders often smaller (less than 10.0 mm)

Range

Curicaberis - four species, southern states.

Decaphora - one species, Decaphora cubana, introduced to Florida from Cuba.

Heteropoda - one species, H. venatoria, introduced to the Gulf States & California.

Macrinus - one species, M. mohavensis, known only from San Bernardino County, CA.

Olios - one species Olios giganteus, southwestern USA.

Food

Ambush predators.

See Also

Internet References

Works Cited

1.	Spiders of North America: An Identification Manual D. Ubick, P. Paquin, P.E. Cushing and V. Roth (eds). 2005. American Arachnological Society.

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