
''Cheiracanthium'', commonly called ''yellow sac spiders'', is a
genus of
araneomorph spiders in the family
Cheiracanthiidae
''Cheiracanthiidae'' is a family of araneomorph spiders first described by Vladimir Wagner in 1887. The synonym Eutichuridae was used for a long time, but Cheiracanthiidae has priority. The largest genus currently recognized as belonging to this ...
, and was first described by
Carl Ludwig Koch
Carl Ludwig Koch (21 September 1778 – 23 August 1857) was a German entomologist and arachnologist. He was responsible for classifying a great number of spiders, including the Brazilian whiteknee tarantula and common house spider. He was bo ...
in 1839.
They are usually pale in colour, and have an
abdomen that can range from yellow to beige. Both sexes range in size from . They are unique among common house spiders because their
tarsi do not point either outward, like members of ''
Tegenaria
''Tegenaria'' is a genus of fast-running funnel weavers that occupy much of the Northern Hemisphere except for Japan and Indonesia. It was first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1804, though many of its species have been moved elsewhere. ...
'', or inward, like members of ''
Araneus
''Araneus'' is a genus of common orb-weaving spiders. It includes about 650 species, among which are the European garden spider and the barn spider. The genus was erected by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1757.
Description
Spiders of this genus prese ...
''), making them easier to identify. The name is a reference to the backwardly directed process on the cymbium of the male palp. The species epithet is derived from the Greek grc,
χείρ, cheir, meaning "hand", and ''
Acanthium
''Onopordum'', or cottonthistle, is a genus of plants in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. They are native to southern Europe, northern Africa, the Canary Islands, the Caucasus, and southwest and central Asia. They grow on d ...
'', a genus of thorny-stemmed plants.
Venom
Though they are beneficial predators in agricultural fields, they are also known to be mildly venomous to humans. Painful bites may be incurred from species such as ''
C. punctorium'' in
Europe, ''
C. mildei'' in Europe and
North America
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, ''
C. inclusum'' in the
Americas
The Americas, which are sometimes collectively called America, are a landmass comprising the totality of North and South America. The Americas make up most of the land in Earth's Western Hemisphere and comprise the New World.
Along with th ...
, ''C. lawrencei'' in
South Africa and ''C. japonicum'' in
Japan
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.
[ ''Cheiracanthium'' venom is purportedly necrotic, and can cause ]pain
Pain is a distressing feeling often caused by intense or damaging stimuli. The International Association for the Study of Pain defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, ...
, swelling, and lesions in humans, but the necrotic nature and severity of its bite has been disputed. A study of twenty confirmed ''Cheiracanthium'' bites in the United States and Australia found that none resulted in necrosis.
A theory that these spiders were attracted to the smell of gasoline was involved in a series of consumer vehicle callbacks in which spiderwebs had blocked fuel lines, but it has since been disproven by a study which found that the spiders simply found hoses inside of the vehicles to be optimal nesting places. [https://scholarworks.iupui.edu/handle/1805/10451]
Species
''Cheiracanthium'' is primarily an Old World
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genus, with many species found from northern Europe to Japan
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, from Southern Africa to India and Australia
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. The only known species in the New World are ''C. inclusum'' and ''C. mildei''. While the former also occurs in Africa and Réunion
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, the latter is found in the Holarctic region and Argentina. They can also be found in the lower mainland of British Columbia, Canada. The genus is quite diverse in Africa and at least three or four species are known to occur in Egyptian cotton fields alone. it contains 214 species, found in the Caribbean, South America, Oceania, Europe, Central America, Africa, Asia, North America, and on Saint Helena
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:
*'' C. abbreviatum'' Simon, 1878 – France, Denmark
*'' C. aculeatum'' Simon, 1884 – Africa
*'' C. aden'' Lotz, 2007 – Yemen
*'' C. adjacens'' O. Pickard-Cambridge
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge FRS (3 November 1828 – 9 March 1917) was an English clergyman and zoologist. He was a keen arachnologist who described and named more than 900 species of spider.
Life and work
Pickard-Cambridge was born in Blox ...
, 1885 – China
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(Yarkand
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), Karakorum
*'' C. africanum'' Lessert, 1921 – Africa, Madagascar, Réunion
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*'' C. aizwalense'' Biswas & Biswas, 2007 – India
*'' C. aladanense'' Lotz, 2007 – Yemen
*'' C. albidulum'' ( Blackwall, 1859) – Madeira
*'' C. algarvense'' Wunderlich, 2012 – Portugal, Spain
*'' C. ambrense'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. ampijoroa'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. andamanense'' (Tikader, 1977) - India
*'' C. andranomay'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. angolense'' Lotz, 2007 – Angola, Zimbabwe, South Africa
*'' C. angulitarse'' Simon, 1878 – Spain, France (Corsica
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), Italy, Hungary, Romania
*'' C. anjozorobe'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. annulipes'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 – Spain, Egypt, Israel
*'' C. antungense'' Chen & Huang, 2012 – Taiwan
*'' C. apia'' Platnick, 1998 – Samoa
*'' C. approximatum'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 – China (Yarkand)
*'' C. ashleyi'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. auenati'' Caporiacco, 1936 – Libya
*'' C. auriculatum'' Zhang, Zhang & Yu, 2018 – China
*'' C. bantaengi'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi
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)
*'' C. barbarum'' (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
*'' C. boendense'' Lotz, 2015 – Congo
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*'' C. brevidens'' Kroneberg, 1875 – Central Asia
*'' C. brevispinum'' Song, Feng & Shang, 1982 – China, Korea
*'' C. buri'' Esyunin & Efimik, 202 - Russia
*'' C. campestre'' Lohmander, 1944 – Sweden
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, Denmark, Europe ">Central Europe , Romania, Ukraine, Russia ( Europe)
*'' C. canariense'' Wunderlich, 1987 – Canary Is., Turkey, Egypt
*'' C. catindigae'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
*'' C. caudatum'' ( Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
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*'' C. chayuense'' Li & Zhang, 2019 - China
*'' C. conflexum'' Simon, 1906 – India
*'' C. conspersum'' (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
*'' C. crucigerum'' Rainbow, 1920 – Australia
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(Norfolk Is.)
*'' C. danieli'' Tikader, 1975 – India
*'' C. daofeng'' Yu & Li, 2020 - China
*'' C. daquilium'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Indonesia, Philippines
*'' C. debile'' Simon, 1890 – Chad
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, Yemen
*'' C. denisi'' Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia, Congo
*'' C. dippenaarae'' Lotz, 2007 – South Africa
*'' C. duanbi'' Yu & Li, 2020 - China
*'' C. echinulatum'' Zhang, Zhang & Yu, 2018 – China
*'' C. effossum'' Herman, 1879 – Central to eastern Europe
*''C. elegans
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'' Thorell, 1875 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to south Siberia), Kazakhstan, Central Asia
*'' C. equestre'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – Libya, Egypt
*'' C. erraticum'' ( Walckenaer, 1802) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan
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*'' C. escaladae'' Barrion, Barrion-Dupo & Heong, 2013 – China
*'' C. eutittha'' Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Taiwan, Japan, Korea?
*'' C. exilipes'' (Lucas, 1846) – Algeria
*'' C. exquestitum'' Zhang & Zhu, 1993 – China
*'' C. falcatum'' Chen, Huang, Chen & Wang, 2006 – Taiwan
*'' C. falcis'' Lotz, 2015 – Gabon
*'' C. festae'' Pavesi, 1895 – Israel
*'' C. fibrosum'' Zhang, Hu & Zhu, 1994 – China
*'' C. filiapophysium'' Chen & Huang, 2012 – Taiwan
*'' C. fisheri'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. floresense'' Wunderlich, 2008 – Azores
*'' C. foordi'' Lotz, 2015 – South Africa
*'' C. foulpointense'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. fujianense'' Gong, 1983 – China
*'' C. fulvotestaceum'' Simon, 1878 – France
*'' C. furax'' L. Koch, 1873 – Samoa
*'' C. furculatum'' Karsch, 1879 – Cape Verde Is., Africa, Madagascar, Comoros
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*'' C. ghanaense'' Lotz, 2015 – Ghana
*'' C. gobi'' Schmidt
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* Schmidt (lunar crater), a small lunar impact crater
* Schmidt (Martian crater), a List of craters on ...
& Barensteiner, 2000 – China
*'' C. gou'' Yu & Li, 2020 - China
*'' C. gracile'' L. Koch, 1873 – Australia ( Queensland, New South Wales)
*'' C. gratum'' Kulczyński Kulczyński (feminine: Kulczyńska, plural: Kulczyńscy) is a Polish surname. Notable people with the surname include:
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, 1897 – Germany, Hungary
*'' C. griswoldi'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. halophilum'' Schmidt & Piepho, 1994 – Cape Verde Is.
*'' C. haroniense'' Lotz, 2007 – Zimbabwe
*'' C. himalayense'' Gravely, 1931 – India
*'' C. hypocyrtum'' Zhang & Zhu, 1993 – China
*'' C. ienisteai'' Sterghiu, 1985 – Romania, Albania
*'' C. ilicis'' Morano & Bonal, 2016 – Spain
*'' C. impressum'' Thorell, 1881 – Australia (Queensland)
*'' C. incertum'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869 – Sri Lanka
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*'' C. inclusum'' ( Hentz, 1847) – North America
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, Central America, Caribbean
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, South America. Introduced to Réunion
*'' C. incomptum'' (Thorell, 1891) – India (Nicobar Is.)
*'' C. indicum'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – India, Sri Lanka
*'' C. inflatum'' Wang & Zhang, 2013 – China
*'' C. inornatum'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – India
*'' C. insigne'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos
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, China
*'' C. insulare'' L. Koch, 1866 – Samoa
*'' C. insulare'' (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar, Réunion
*'' C. iranicum'' Esyunin & Zamani, 2020 - Iran
*'' C. isiacum'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – Libya, Egypt
*'' C. itakeum'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
*'' C. jabalpurense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
*'' C. japonicum'' Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – China, Korea, Japan
*'' C. jocquei'' Lotz, 2014 – Comoros, Madagascar
*'' C. joculare'' Simon, 1910 – São Tomé and Príncipe
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*'' C. jorgeense'' Wunderlich, 2008 – Azores
*'' C. jovium'' Denis, 1947 – Egypt
*'' C. kabalense'' Lotz, 2015 – Uganda
*'' C. kakamega'' Lotz, 2015 – Kenya
*'' C. kakumense'' Lotz, 2015 – Ivory Coast, Ghana, Congo
*'' C. kashmirense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
*'' C. kazachstanicum'' Ponomarev, 2007 – Kazakhstan
*'' C. kenyaense'' Lotz, 2007 – Africa
*'' C. kibonotense'' Lessert, 1921 – Ethiopia, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
*'' C. klabati'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*'' C. knipperi'' Lotz, 2011 – Tanzania
*'' C. kupense'' Lotz, 2007 – Cameroon
*'' C. lascivum'' Karsch, 1879 – Russia ( Sakhalin), China, Korea, Japan
*'' C. leucophaeum'' Simon, 1897 – Madagascar
*'' C. ligawsolanum'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
*'' C. liplikeum'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
*'' C. liuyangense'' Xie, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1996 – China
*'' C. longimanum'' L. Koch, 1873 – Australia (Queensland), Tonga, Fiji
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, Vanuatu, New Caledonia
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*'' C. longipes'' (Thorell, 1890) – Indonesia (Sumatra
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)
*'' C. ludovici'' Lessert, 1921 – Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar
*'' C. lukiense'' Lotz, 2015 – Congo
*'' C. macedonicum'' Drensky, 1921 – Italy, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, Macedonia
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* Macedonia (ancient kingdom), a kingdom in Greek antiquity
* Macedonia (Greece), a traditional geographic reg ...
, Bulgaria
*'' C. madagascarense'' Lotz, 2014 – Comoros, Madagascar
*'' C. mahajanga'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. malkini'' Lotz, 2007 – Nigeria
*'' C. mangiferae'' Workman, 1896 – Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra)
*'' C. maraisi'' Lotz, 2007 – Namibia, Botswana
*'' C. margaritae'' Sterghiu, 1985 – Romania
*'' C. mayombense'' Lotz, 2015 – Congo
*'' C. melanostomum'' (Thorell, 1895) – India, Bangladesh, Myanmar
*'' C. mertoni'' Strand, 1911 – Indonesia (Aru Is.)
*'' C. mildei'' L. Koch, 1864 – Europe, North AfricaEurope, North Africa, Turkey, Middle East, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Central Asia. Introduced to North America, Argentina
*'' C. minahassae'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*'' C. minshullae'' Lotz, 2007 – Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
*'' C. molle'' L. Koch, 1875 – Africa, Saudi Arabia
*'' C. mondrainense'' Main, 1954 – Australia (Western Australia)
*'' C. mongolicum'' Schenkel, 1963 – Mongolia
*'' C. montanum'' L. Koch, 1877 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Iran
*'' C. murinum'' (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar
*'' C. mysorense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India, Bangladesh
*'' C. nalsaroverense'' Patel & Patel, 1973 – India
*'' C. nervosum'' Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
*'' C. nickeli'' Lotz, 2011 – Mauritania
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*'' C. ningmingense'' Zhang & Yin, 1999 – China
*'' C. occidentale'' L. Koch, 1882 – Spain (Minorca), Italy
*'' C. olliforme'' Zhang & Zhu, 1993 – China
*'' C. oncognathum'' Thorell, 1871 – Europe
*'' C. pallidum'' Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Lord Howe Is.)
*'' C. pauriense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
*'' C. pelasgicum'' (C. L. Koch, 1837) – Southern and eastern Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe) to Tajikistan
*'' C. pennatum'' Simon, 1878 – Southern Europe, Romania
*'' C. pennuliferum'' Simon, 1909 – Australia (Western Australia)
*'' C. pennyi'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873 – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to south Siberia), Iran, Central Asia, China
*'' C. peregrinum'' Thorell, 1899 – Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon
*'' C. pichoni'' Schenkel, 1963 – China
*'' C. poonaense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India
*'' C. potanini'' Schenkel, 1963 – China
*'' C. punctipedellum'' Caporiacco, 1949 – Congo, Rwanda
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, Kenya
*'' C. punctorium'' (Villers, 1789) (type
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* Data type, collection of values used for computations.
* File type
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* Ty ...
) – Europe, Turkey, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to south Siberia), Iran, Central Asia
*'' C. punjabense'' Sadana & Bajaj, 1980 – India
*'' C. ransoni'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. rehobothense'' Strand, 1915 – Israel
*'' C. rothi'' Lotz, 2014 – Madagascar
*'' C. ruandana'' (Strand, 1916) - Rwanda
*'' C. rupicola'' (Thorell, 1897) – Myanmar, China, Indonesia
*'' C. russellsmithi'' Lotz, 2007 – Ethiopia
*'' C. rwandense'' Lotz, 2011 – Rwanda
*'' C. saccharanalis'' Mukhtar, 2015 – Pakistan
*'' C. sadanai'' Tikader, 1976 - India
*'' C. sakoemicum'' Roewer, 1938 – New Guinea
*'' C. salsicola'' Simon, 1932 – France
*'' C. sambii'' Patel & Reddy, 1991 – India
*'' C. sansibaricum'' Strand, 1907 – Ivory Coast to Zanzibar
*'' C. saraswatii'' Tikader, 1962 – India
*'' C. schenkeli'' Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa
*'' C. seidlitzi'' L. Koch, 1864 – Mediterranean to Central Asia
*'' C. seshii'' Patel & Reddy, 1991 – India
*'' C. shilabira'' Lotz, 2015 – Congo, Kenya
*'' C. shiluvanense'' Lotz, 2007 – South Africa
*'' C. sikkimense'' Majumder & Tikader, 1991 – India, Bangladesh
*'' C. silaceum'' Rainbow, 1897 – Australia (New South Wales)
*'' C. simaoense'' Zhang & Yin, 1999 – China
*'' C. simplex'' Thorell, 1899 – Cameroon, Nigeria
*'' C. siwi'' El-Hennawy, 2001 – Egypt
*'' C. solidum'' Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993 – China
*'' C. soputani'' Merian, 1911 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
*'' C. spectabile'' (Thorell, 1887) – Myanmar
*'' C. sphaericum'' Zhang, Zhu & Hu, 1993 – China
*'' C. stratioticum'' L. Koch, 1873 – New Zealand, Australia ( Tasmania)
*'' C. streblowi'' L. Koch, 1879 – Russia (Middle and south Siberia)
*'' C. striolatum'' Simon, 1878 – Western Mediterranean
*'' C. subinsulanum'' Li & Zhang, 2019 - China
*'' C. taegense'' Paik, 1990 – China, Korea, Japan
*'' C. tagorei'' Biswas & Raychaudhuri, 2003 – Bangladesh
*'' C. taiwanicum'' Chen, Huang, Chen & Wang, 2006 – China, Taiwan
*'' C. tanmoyi'' Biswas & Roy, 2005 – India
*'' C. tanzanense'' Lotz, 2015 – Tanzania
*'' C. taprobanense'' Strand, 1907 – Sri Lanka
*'' C. tenue'' L. Koch, 1873 – Australia (Queensland)
*'' C. tetragnathoide'' Caporiacco, 1949 – Kenya
*'' C. torricellianum'' Strand, 1911 – New Guinea
*'' C. torsivum'' Chen & Huang, 2012 – Taiwan
*'' C. triviale'' (Thorell, 1895) – India, Myanmar
*'' C. trivittatum'' Simon, 1906 – India
*'' C. truncatum'' (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
*'' C. turanicum'' Kroneberg, 1875 – Uzbekistan, Tajikistan
*'' C. turiae'' Strand, 1917 – Thailand to Australia (Queensland)
*'' C. uncinatum'' Paik, 1985 – China, Korea
*'' C. unicum'' Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 – Korea, Japan, China, Laos
*'' C. vankhedei'' Marusik & Fomichev, 2016 – Mongolia
*'' C. vansoni'' Lawrence, 1936 – Southern Africa
*'' C. verdense'' Lotz, 2011 – Cape Verde Is.
*'' C. virescens'' (Sundevall
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, 1833) – Europe, Caucasus, Russia (Europe to Far East), Iran, China
*'' C. vorax'' O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874 – India
*'' C. warsai'' Mukhtar, 2015 – Pakistan
*'' C. wiehlei'' Chrysanthus, 1967 – New Guinea
*'' C. wilma'' (Benoit, 1977) – St. Helena
*'' C. wuquan'' Yu & Li, 2020 - China
*'' C. zebrinum'' Savelyeva, 1972 – Russia (south Siberia), Kazakhstan
*'' C. zhejiangense'' Hu & Song, 1982 – China, Korea
See also
* List of Cheiracanthiidae species
This page lists all described species of the spider family Cheiracanthiidae accepted by the World Spider Catalog :
C ''Calamoneta''
'' Calamoneta'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001
* '' C. djojosudharmoi'' Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 ( type) — Indonesia ( ...
* List of spiders associated with cutaneous reactions
A spider bite, also known as arachnidism, is an injury resulting from the bite of a spider. The effects of most bites are not serious. Most bites result in mild symptoms around the area of the bite. Rarely they may produce a necrotic skin wound ...
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{{Taxonbar, from=Q1245731
Araneomorphae genera
Cosmopolitan spiders
Taxa named by Carl Ludwig Koch