Agelenidae
(Funnel Weavers)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Agelenidae

Common Name (AAS)

Funnel Weavers

Author

Carl Ludwig Koch, 1837

Sightings Overview

There have been 370 confirmed sightings of Agelenidae (Funnel Weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on August 31, 2025 by Spider ID member jmw16. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 370 sightings because of certain Agelenidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 27% of the time, Agelenidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 369)
• Sex: 15 female and 70 male.
• Environment: Agelenidae has been sighted 133 times outdoors, and 259 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (75). Low foliage (14). High foliage (2). Ground layer (18). Under rock or debris (15). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (6). Cave (1).

Location and Range

Agelenidae (Funnel Weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Agelenidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

Seasonality

Agelenidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

• January: 34
• February: 31
• March: 43
• April: 65
• May: 51
• June: 15
• July: 11
• August: 13
• September: 30
• October: 54
• November: 6
• December: 16