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Two-Clawed Hunting Spider

Cheiracanthium erraticum

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) lola73, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Alaska.January 59, February 43, March 68, April 107, May 154, June 168, July 180, August 155, September 114, October 85, November 46, December 36.
United States1,215
Alaska1,215
Russia101
United Kingdom23
England23
Nizhny Novgorod Oblast21
Moscow Oblast12
Lithuania10
Kirov Oblast9
Chuvashia9

Counts show where people looked, not only where it lives.

Traits

Behavioral

  • CarnivoreEats other animals or animal-derived prey as a major part of its diet.Inferred from its group

Physical

  • ExoskeletonHas a hard external skeletonFrom its classification

Practical

  • VenomousProduces venom for defense or huntingFrom its classification

Group and habits

  • PredatorDescends from an animal lineage whose members commonly hunt other animals.Inferred from its group

Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumArthropods · Arthropoda
ClassArachnids · Arachnida
OrderSpiders · Araneae
FamilyLong-legged Sac Spiders · Cheiracanthiidae
GenusLonglegged Sac Spiders · Cheiracanthium

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Two-Clawed Hunting Spider with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.