Family Sparassidae - Giant Crab Spiders

Classification · Numbers · Range · Works Cited

THIS WAS IN MY HOUSE!!!!! - Heteropoda venatoria - male

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Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

No Taxon (Entelegynes)

Family Sparassidae (Giant Crab Spiders)

Numbers

3 genera in the USA.

Range

Olios - western states

Pseudosparianthis - Florida

Heteropoda - Florida, occasionally found in other southern states (1)

Works Cited

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

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 10 September, 2004 - 4:28pm
Additional contributions by Lynette
Last updated 15 November, 2009 - 12:48pm

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