🕷️Brown recluse spider

Loxosceles reclusa Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

棕色遁蛛（學名：Loxosceles reclusa），也譯為褐色隱蛛、棕色隱遁蛛，提琴背蜘蛛（fiddleback spider），棕色提琴蜘蛛（brown fiddler）、提琴蜘蛛（violin spider）、隐居褐蛛，但提琴蜘蛛這稱號可用於同属的其他成員。它屬於平甲蛛屬，是一種有毒蜘蛛，生活於北美洲南部，與紅頭平甲蛛、智利隱蛛屬同一個科，都是有劇毒的蜘蛛。身長約6-20公釐之間，但也有可能長得更大。毒性強，被咬傷者很快就會出現紅斑、潰爛、噁心的症狀，孩童被咬後的反應尤其激烈，2014年就曾有一名5歲的美國男童在被咬後的一天內死亡。

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Brown Recluse

Conservation status

Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Loxosceles reclusa yet.

Key measurements

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

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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 length

0.01 mrecord 0.01 m · World Spider Trait Databasetypical adult

World Spider Trait Database

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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.

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vioolspin (nl), pustelnik brunatny (pl), Loxosceles reclusa (fr), Loxosceles reclusa (es), Loxosceles reclusa (de), ドクイトグモ (ja) … and 16 more languages

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