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Trechaleidae   Simon, 1890 / Cupiennius  Simon, 1891   5 species

Cupiennius coccineus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020735

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Description
Additional information

Non-established species in Europe (Nentwig, 2015)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Costa Rica to Colombia
Figures
species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Barth & Cordes 1998)

species

male Embolic division
(Barth & Cordes 1998)

species

female Epigyne
(Schmidt 1964)

species

female Epigyne
(Barth & Cordes 1998)

species

female Epigyne
(Sherwood 2025)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Barth & Cordes 1998)

species

female Habitus, ventral view
(Barth & Cordes 1998)

Distribution List
Germany   (Schmidt, 1964) ||| United Kingdom   (Killick, 2023) |||
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

Killick T (2023) Some accidental imports reported by members of the British Spider Identification Facebook Group. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 156/SRS News 105: 6-9 pdf

Nentwig W (2015) Introduction, establishment rate, pathways and impact of spiders alien to Europe. Biological Invasions 17: 2757-2778 pdf

Schmidt G (1964) Kurze Mitteilung über einige in Coburg gefangene exotische Spinnen. Revue Française d'Entomologie 31: 120-125 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 (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
02-05-2025 Image insert
27-09-2023 Image insert
29-03-2023 Distribution insert Detail