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title: "Southern House Spider"
description: "Kukulcania hibernalis — Insetti e ragni. The southern house spider is a species of large spider in the family Filistatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/southern-house-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Southern House Spider

> Kukulcania hibernalis — Insetti e ragni. The southern house spider is a species of large spider in the family Filistatidae.

- Scientific name: *Kukulcania hibernalis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `urban` (Città e giardini)
- iNaturalist observations: 11597
- Wikidata: [Q1647720](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1647720)
- iNaturalist taxon: [122357](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/122357)

## Names

- en: Southern House Spider
- es: Araña de patio

## Countries with the most observations

US (4858), AR (2786), BR (307), MX (272), CO (98), UY (93), GT (33), CR (32), PY (22), HN (11), VE (7), ES (6)

## Summary

The southern house spider is a species of large spider in the family Filistatidae. Currently given the scientific name Kukulcania hibernalis, it was formerly known as Filistata hibernalis. Found in the Americas, it exhibits strong sexual dimorphism. It lives in the southern states of the USA, throughout Central America and some of the Caribbean, to southern Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. The males may be mistaken for brown recluse because the two have similar coloration and body structure. However, compared to the brown recluse, male southern house spiders are often larger in size, lack the distinctive violin shape…

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

## Photo

![Southern House Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-house-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Bruno R. Giozza · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/147023667

## Machine access

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