Cupiennius

Cupiennius, known by the common name banana spiders,[2] is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trechaleidae, named by Eugène Simon in 1891.[3] They are found from Mexico to northwestern South America, and on some Caribbean islands. Unlike the dangerously venomous Phoneutria, bites from these spiders typically have only minor effects on humans, and have been compared to a bee sting.[4]

Cupiennius
Adult male in Northern Honduras
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trechaleidae
Genus: Cupiennius
Simon, 1891[1]
Type species
C. getazi
Simon, 1891
Species

11, see text

C. getazi with female katydid prey (Tettigoniidae sp.), Panama

Members of this genus come in a range of sizes, from cephalothorax lengths less than 9 mm (0.35 in) to large species, with a cephalothorax length of 40 mm (1.6 in).[4] The larger species are sometimes found far outside their native ranges in shipments of fruits, where they are frequently confused with Phoneutria spiders.[2]

Species

As of April 2019 it contains eleven species:[1]

  • Cupiennius bimaculatus (Taczanowski, 1874) – Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Guyana, Ecuador
  • Cupiennius chiapanensis Medina, 2006 – Mexico
  • Cupiennius coccineus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Costa Rica to Colombia
  • Cupiennius cubae Strand, 1909 – Cuba, Costa Rica to Venezuela
  • Cupiennius foliatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Cupiennius getazi Simon, 1891 (type) – Costa Rica, Panama
  • Cupiennius granadensis (Keyserling, 1877) – Costa Rica to Colombia
  • Cupiennius remedius Barth & Cordes, 1998 – Guatemala
  • Cupiennius salei (Keyserling, 1877) – Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola
  • Cupiennius valentinei (Petrunkevitch, 1925) – Panama
  • Cupiennius vodou Brescovit & Polotow, 2005 – Hispaniola

References
  1. "Gen. Cupiennius Simon, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
  2. Vetter, R.S.; Crawford, R.L.; Buckle, D. J. (2014). "Spiders (Araneae) Found in Bananas and Other International Cargo Submitted to North American Arachnologists for Identification". Journal of Medical Entomology. 51: 1136–1143. doi:10.1603/me14037. PMID 26309299.
  3. Simon, E. (1891). "Descriptions de quelques arachnides du Costa Rica communiqués pa M. A. Getaz (de Genève)". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 16: 109–112.
  4. Vetter, R.S.; Hillebrecht (2008). "On distinguishing two often-misidentified genera (Cupiennius, Phoneutria) (Araneae: Ctenidae) of large spiders found in Central and South American cargo shipments". American Entomology. 54: 82–87.


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