🕷️Heteropoda venatoria
Heteropoda venatoria is a species of spider in the family Sparassidae, the huntsman spiders. It is native to the tropical regions of the world, and it is present in some subtropical areas as an introduced species. Its common names include giant crab spider, pantropical huntsman spider, cane spider, African Huntsman Spider, or giant mombasa spider .
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The IUCN Red List has not assessed Heteropoda venatoria yet.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.03 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Heteropoda venatoria
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.03 mrecord 0.03 m · World Spider Trait Databasetypical adultWorld Spider Trait DatabaseOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Edwards 2003
Record: largest individual on record
Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY
By sex
- Male0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.03 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Body size of European spiders from Spiders of Europe; Nentwig et al. 2018
- Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Adhesive foot pads and prey capture behaviour; Wolff et al. 2013
- Female0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Chen & Gao 1990
- Female0.03 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Chen & Gao 1990
Figures vary
- 0.02 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Lyons et al 2025 trait data; Edwards 2003
Not recorded for Heteropoda venatoria yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familySparassidae
- ›genusHeteropoda
- ›speciesHeteropoda venatoria
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familySparassidae
- genusHeteropoda
All 7 branches ↓Fewer branches ↑
- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- familySparassidae
- genusHeteropoda
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