Agelenopsis
(Grass Spiders)

Agelenopsis, commonly known as Grass Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae. Agelenopsis spiders have been sighted 139 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Agelenopsis includes 2 countries and 34 states in the United States. Agelenopsis is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of October.

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 139 confirmed sightings of Agelenopsis (Grass Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on November 4, 2019 by Spider ID member kristanlopez90. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 139 sightings because of certain Agelenopsis sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 49% of the time, Agelenopsis spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 65)
Sex: 19 female and 20 male.
Environment: Agelenopsis has been sighted 46 times outdoors, and 25 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (31). Low foliage (7). Ground layer (3). 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.