🕷️Brown recluse spider
Loxosceles reclusa est une espèce d'araignées aranéomorphes de la famille des Sicariidae. Elle est appelée « recluse brune » ou, comme d'autres Loxosceles, « araignée violoniste ».
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Loxosceles reclusa yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.01 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Brown recluse spider
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.01 mrecord 0.01 m · World Spider Trait Databasetypical adultWorld Spider Trait DatabaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Pace & Vetter 2009
Record: largest individual on record
Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY
Figures vary
- 0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Pace & Vetter 2009
Not recorded for Brown recluse spider yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familySicariidae
- ›genusLoxosceles
- ›speciesLoxosceles reclusa
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familySicariidae
- genusLoxosceles
All 7 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familySicariidae
- genusLoxosceles
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