Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Agelenidae
- Genus: Agelenopsis
Common Name (AAS
)
Grass Spiders
Author
Christoph Gottfried Giebel, 1869
Sightings Overview
There have been 145 confirmed sightings of Agelenopsis (Grass Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 24, 2019 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 145 sightings because of certain Agelenopsis sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 54% of the time, Agelenopsis spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 71)
- Sex: 20 female and 23 male.
- Environment: Agelenopsis has been sighted 53 times outdoors, and 24 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (35). Low foliage (8). High foliage (1). Ground layer (4). Under rock or debris (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (2).
Location and Range
Agelenopsis (Grass Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Agelenopsis has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, None, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Agelenopsis has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 2
- February: 1
- March: 2
- April: 2
- May: 1
- June: 2
- July: 13
- August: 13
- September: 35
- October: 37
- November: 9
- December: 8