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Cryptachaea blattea

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Cryptachaea blattea is a species in the family Theridiidae, order Araneae. Recorded adults reach 2.71 mm in length. Source checklists list it for 2 countries: Chile and New Zealand.

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Quick facts about Cryptachaea blattea

Weight
Not recorded
Length
2.71 mm
Lifespan
Not recorded
Main food
Not recorded
Habitat
Not recorded
Young per litter or clutch
Not recorded
Active
At night (nocturnal)
Conservation status
Not recorded
Countries on record
2 countriessrc for Countries on record

How big is Cryptachaea blattea?

CRYPTACHAEA BLATTEA · LENGTH 2.71 MMADULT HUMAN · HEIGHT 1.7 M
At 2.71 mm, the recorded maximum length of the cryptachaea blattea is about 0.2% of the height of an adult human (1.7 m, a fixed reference used for scale).

Where does Cryptachaea blattea live?

Countries where Catalogue of Life checklists list the species. Many checklists carry no country data, so the list is often incomplete. It is not a range map.

Cryptachaea blattea is listed for 2 countries.

ChileNew Zealand
  • Listed
  • Not listed
small islands are not drawn at this scale

The same countries as a list

  1. Chile
  2. New Zealand

Why a country list is not a range map

Where has it been introduced?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Cryptachaea blattea as introduced in 2 countries.

  1. Belgium
  2. Canada

Introduced means brought by people and now present; invasive means the country's checklist records an impact. A species can be native to one part of a country and introduced in another. Source: Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (CC BY 4.0).

Is Cryptachaea blattea endangered?

No conservation assessment is recorded for this species in our sources. That is not the same as being safe: it has not been matched to an assessment.

How is Cryptachaea blattea classified?

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. classArachnida
  4. orderAraneae
  5. familyTheridiidae
  6. genusCryptachaea
  7. SpeciesCryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886)

Synonyms Achaearanea acoreensis, Achaearanea blattea, Achaearanea geochares, Achaearanea teja, Cryptachaea acoreensis, Cryptachaea albogullata, Cryptachaea geochares, Cryptachaea setiger, Cryptachaea teja, Cryptachaea tubercula, Dipoena blattea, Dipoena tubercula, Theridion acoreensis, Theridium blatteus, Theridium setiger, Theridium tuberculum

Other names and names in other languages (4)
  • snovačka kosmopolitníCzech
  • Afrikanische KugelspinneGerman
  • Kleine broeikasspinDutch
  • Kleine broeikaskogelspinDutch

Catalogue of Life

Relatives of Cryptachaea blattea

Other species in the same genus Cryptachaea.

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Common questions

Answered only where our data holds the answer.

How big is Cryptachaea blattea?

An adult Cryptachaea blattea measures 2.71 mm long, according to values recorded on Wikidata.

Where does Cryptachaea blattea live?

Catalogue of Life checklists list Cryptachaea blattea for 2 countries: Chile and New Zealand. Checklist coverage is uneven, so the true range may be wider.

Is Cryptachaea blattea an invasive species?

The Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species lists Cryptachaea blattea as introduced in 2 countries: Belgium and Canada, but does not flag it as invasive in any of them.

What kind of animal is Cryptachaea blattea?

Cryptachaea blattea (Cryptachaea blattea) belongs to the family Theridiidae in the order Araneae.

Sources and how to cite this page

Data as of 2026-11-14. How this page is put together.

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APA

CreatureData. (2026). Cryptachaea blattea (Cryptachaea blattea). Retrieved from https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-blattea

MLA

“Cryptachaea blattea (Cryptachaea blattea).” CreatureData, 2026, https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-blattea.

BibTeX
@misc{cryptachaea_blattea_2026,
  title = {Cryptachaea blattea (Cryptachaea blattea)},
  author = {{CreatureData}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://creaturedata.com/animals/cryptachaea-blattea},
  note = {Data as of 2026-11-14}
}