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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Filistatidae » Kukulcania

Genus Kukulcania

Classification · Synonyms and other taxonomic changes · Explanation of Names · Numbers · Identification · Print References · Internet References · Works Cited

Dark brown/gray(?) spider - Kukulcania hibernalis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)

Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)

Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)

Class Arachnida (Arachnids)

Order Araneae (Spiders)

Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)

Family Filistatidae

Genus Kukulcania

Synonyms and other taxonomic changes

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Explanation of Names

Named after Kukulcan, the Mayan feathered-serpent god.

Kukulcan is a figure in Mayan myth representing the bringer of writing and technology and possesing protruding facail features. ~ bcspiders, 31 January, 2012

Numbers

There may be 5 species and 1 subspecies in the US.

Kukulcania arizonica

Kukulcania geophila

- Kukulcania geophila wawona

Kukulcania hibernalis

Kukulcania hurca

Kukulcania utahana

Identification

These spiders create a tube-like retreat in cracks.

This spider varies greatly in color from light brown to dark black. Females are generally grey to black while the males are tan. Males look very similar to the Recluse spiders, except they have much longer pedipalps, eight eyes (not six as in the Recluse family), and very long front legs.

Female

Male

Egg Sac

Print References

(1)

Internet References

~ aces.nmsu.edu - K. arizonica & hibernalis ranges in the southwest.

~ wikipedia.org - List of species.

~ edis.ifas.ufl.edu - Information and images.

Works Cited

1.	The crevice weaver spider genus Kukulcania (Araneae, Filistatidae) Ivan L. F. Magalhaes and Martín J. Ramírez . 2019. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, No. 426.

Contributed by john and jane balaban on 30 July, 2005 - 5:21pm
Additional contributions by Lynette Elliott, Jeff Hollenbeck, Chuck Entz, Edward Ruden
Last updated 22 May, 2022 - 9:06pm

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