''Cupiennius coccineus'', also known by its common name red-thighed bromeliad spider, is a

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Cupiennius ''Cupiennius'', known by the common name bromeliad spiders or as the often confused name banana spiders, is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Trechaleidae, named by Eugène Simon in 1891. They are found from Mexico to northwestern Sou ...

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Description

''Cupiennius coccineus'' are solitary and nocturnal Spider .

References

Taxa named by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge Trechaleidae {{Trechaleidae-stub