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Trechaleidae   Simon, 1890 / Cupiennius  Simon, 1891   5 species

Cupiennius salei (Keyserling, 1877)

Description
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Mexico, Central America, Hispaniola
Figures
Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1961) ||| Netherlands   (Noordijk & van Dorp, 2018) ||| United Kingdom   (Sherwood, 2025) |||
References

Barth F G, Cordes D (1998) Cupiennius remedius new species (Araneae, Ctenidae), and a key for the genus. Journal of Arachnology 26: 133-141 pdf

Noordijk J, Dorp K van (2018) Een geïmporteerd exemplaar van de 'bananenspin' Cupiennius salei (Araneae: Ctenidae) aangetroffen in de Naturalis-Collectie [An imported individual of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei (Araneae: Ctenidae) discovered in the collection of Naturalis]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 25-27 pdf

Schmidt G (1961) Eine neue Cupienniusart. Freunde des Kölner Zoos 4: 58-59 pdf

Sherwood D (2025) Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024. Arthropoda Selecta 34: 121-160 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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