Cheiracanthium

Yellow sac spider
Female C. furculatum
Cheiracanthium sp., Pateros, Washington
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Cheiracanthiidae
Genus: Cheiracanthium
C. L. Koch, 1839
Type species
C. punctorium
(Villers, 1789)
Species

212, see text

Synonyms

Cheiracanthium, commonly called yellow sac spiders, is a genus of araneomorph spiders in the family Cheiracanthiidae, and was first described by Carl Ludwig Koch in 1839.