Cupiennius

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
Type species
	; Simon, 1891
Species
	11, see text

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

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]

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]

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

References[]

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Cupiennius Simon, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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 (6): 1136–1143. doi:10.1603/me14037. PMID 26309299. S2CID 27097945.
^ 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.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b 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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[NMBE-1] Jump up to: ^a ^b Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Cupiennius Simon, 1891". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-24.

[Vett2014-2] Jump up to: ^a ^b 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 (6): 1136–1143. doi:10.1603/me14037. PMID 26309299. S2CID 27097945.

[Simo1891-3] 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.

[Vett2008-4] Jump up to: ^a ^b 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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