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Genus: Cupiennius Simon, 1891 | Family: Trechaleidae Simon, 1890

Cupiennius oculifer (Karsch, 1879)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062377

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Described:

Distribution: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama

Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: British Museum of Natural History (BMNH)/Natural History Museum (NHMUK), London, UK m of Cupiennius foliatus - (Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985)
Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA f of Cupiennius minimus - (Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985)
Holotype: Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt am Main (SMF), Germany f of Cupiennius harzi - (Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985)
Holotype: f (destroyed) of Cupiennius guatemalicus - (Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany m (20147) of Cupiennius subfoliatus - (Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985)
Holotype: Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (ZMB), Germany f (2979a) - (Sherwood et al., 2025g)

Taxonomic References

Phoneutria oculifera Karsch, 1879a: 350, f. 2 (Df) Original description

Cupiennius foliatus F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a: 307, pl. 30, f. 1-2 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:020737]

Cupiennius minimus Banks, 1909a: 215, pl. 6, f. 27 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062374]

Cupiennius subfoliatus Strand, 1909h: 293 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062376]

Cupiennius guatemalicus Strand, 1910e: 14 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062371]

Cupiennius harzi Schmidt, 1964: 121, f. 1 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062372]

Cupiennius foliatus Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985: 355, f. 31-35, 41d, 42d (mf, S of Cupiennius guatemalicus, C. harzi, C. minimus and C. subfoliatus)

Phoneutria oculifera Lachmuth, Grasshoff & Barth, 1985: 347 (removed from S of Cupiennius salei, rejecting Petrunkevitch, 1911: 479, probably to Ancylometes)

Cupiennius foliatus Barth & Cordes, 1998: 137, f. 14, 22, 31 (mf)

Cupiennius foliatus Barth, 2001: 397, f. A2a, A3h, A4i, pl. 8 (mf)

Cupiennius foliatus Barth, 2002: 383, f. A2a, A3h, A4i (mf)

Cupiennius foliatus Barth & Cordes, 2008: 226, f. 8a, 16, 25 (mf)

Cupiennius oculifer Sherwood et al., 2025g: 139, f. 1B, F, H, 2A-D (f, T from Phoneutria, S of Cupiennius foliatus)

References

Banks, N. (1909a). Arachnida from Costa Rica. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 61: 194-234. -- Show included taxa

Barth, F. G. & Cordes, D. (1998). Cupiennius remedius new species (Araneae, Ctenidae), and a key for the genus. Journal of Arachnology 26: 133-141. -- Show included taxa

Barth, F. G. & Cordes, D. (2008). Key to the genus Cupiennius (Araneae, Ctenidae). Stapfia 88: 225-228. -- Show included taxa

Barth, F. G. (2001). Sinne und Verhalten: aus dem Leben einer Spinne. Springer, Berlin, 423 pp. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-56813-8 -- Show included taxa

Barth, F. G. (2002). A spider's world. Senses and behavior. Springer, Berlin, 393 pp. doi: 10.1007/978-3-662-04899-3 -- Show included taxa

Karsch, F. (1879a). West-afrikanische Arachniden, gesammelt von Herrn Stabsarzt Dr. Falkenstein. Zeitschrift für die Gesammten Naturwissenschaften 52: 329-373. -- Show included taxa

Lachmuth, U., Grasshoff, M. & Barth, F. G. (1985). Taxonomische Revision der Gattung Cupiennius Simon 1891 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 65(3/6, 1984): 329-372. -- Show included taxa

Pickard-Cambridge, F. O. (1901a). Arachnida - Araneida and Opiliones. In: Biologia Centrali-Americana, Zoology. London, 2, pp. 193-312, pl. 15-30. [[for the exact dates see Lyal, 2011]] -- Show included taxa

Schmidt, G. (1964). Kurze Mitteilung über einige in Coburg gefangene exotische Spinnen. Revue Française d'Entomologie 31: 120-125. -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Cobo, S. A., Dunlop, J. A., Tsavalas, A. T., Geci, D., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2025g). Reidentification of historical specimens assigned to Cupiennius oculifer (Karsch, 1879) (Araneae: Trechaleidae). Zootaxa 5723(1): 138-142. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.1.8 -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1909h). Neue oder wenig bekannte südamerikanische Cupiennius- und Ctenus-Arten. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Geographie und Biologie der Tiere 28(3): 293-328. -- Show included taxa

Strand, E. (1910e). Eine neue cteniforme Spinne aus Guatemala. Societas Entomologica, Organ für den Internationalen Entomologen-Verein 25(4): 14. -- Show included taxa

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-11-24	Species distribution update	Strand, 1910e	Old value
2025-11-24	Species distribution update	F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901a	Old value
2025-11-24	New taxonomic reference entry	Sherwood et al., 2025g
2025-11-24	Species synonymy	Sherwood et al., 2025g		Cupiennius foliatus synonymized with Cupiennius oculifer