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title: "Common Rain Spider"
description: "Palystes superciliosus — Insetti e ragni. The common rain spider (Palystes superciliosus), formerly P."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/common-rain-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Common Rain Spider

> Palystes superciliosus — Insetti e ragni. The common rain spider (Palystes superciliosus), formerly P.

- Scientific name: *Palystes superciliosus*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 2955
- Wikidata: [Q2438009](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2438009)
- iNaturalist taxon: [347803](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/347803)

## Names

- en: Common Rain Spider
- de: Regen-Spinne

## Countries with the most observations

ZA (1272), SZ (5)

## Summary

The common rain spider (Palystes superciliosus), formerly P. natalius, is a species of huntsman spider native to Southern Africa. It is the most common and widespread species in the genus Palystes.
In South Africa its distribution ranges from KwaZulu-Natal province in the east, then westwards to the provinces of Mpumalanga, Limpopo, Gauteng and North West in the north, and Eastern Cape and Western Cape in the south. It has a body length of 15–36 mm and a leg span of up to 110mm. The species was first described by Ludwig Carl Christian Koch in 1875.

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

## Photo

![Common Rain Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/common-rain-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Phindile Mboyi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/239440352

## Machine access

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