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title: "Chilean Tiger Spider"
description: "Scytodes globula — Insetti e ragni. Scytodes globula, the Chilean tiger spider, is a predatory spider of the family Scytodidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/chilean-tiger-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Chilean Tiger Spider

> Scytodes globula — Insetti e ragni. Scytodes globula, the Chilean tiger spider, is a predatory spider of the family Scytodidae.

- Scientific name: *Scytodes globula*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2065
- Wikidata: [Q1319138](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1319138)
- iNaturalist taxon: [424379](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/424379)

## Names

- en: Chilean Tiger Spider
- es: Araña escupidora

## Countries with the most observations

AR (834), CL (590), US (218), UY (163), BR (3)

## Summary

Scytodes globula, the Chilean tiger spider, is a predatory spider of the family Scytodidae. In Spanish, it is known as araña tigre, or "tiger spider", but is also well known as "long-legged spider" (because of the disproportional size of those members) or "spitting spider" (because of its hunting methods, in which it projects an extremely sticky web which immobilizes its prey). It has achieved fame by being the only natural predator of the extremely common and dangerous Chilean recluse spider (Loxosceles laeta).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scytodes_globula

## Photo

![Chilean Tiger Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/chilean-tiger-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: mikoikoi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/211967224

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/chilean-tiger-spider?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).