Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Dysderidae
- Genus: Dysdera
Author
Pierre André Latreille, 1804
Sightings Overview
There have been 201 confirmed sightings of Dysdera, with the most recent sighting submitted on April 25, 2024 by Spider ID member simmons. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 201 sightings because of certain Dysdera sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dysdera spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 200)
- Sex: 11 female and 5 male.
- Environment: Dysdera has been sighted 90 times outdoors, and 126 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (33). Low foliage (6). High foliage (1). Ground layer (19). Under rock or debris (26). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Cave (4).
Location and Range
Dysdera has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
Dysdera has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dysdera has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 15
- February: 14
- March: 29
- April: 62
- May: 50
- June: 5
- July: 2
- August: 3
- September: 3
- October: 8
- November: 6
- December: 3