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 77 confirmed sightings of Agelenopsis (Grass Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on October 2, 2024 by Spider ID member trari. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 77 sightings because of certain Agelenopsis sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 52% of the time, Agelenopsis spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 77)
- Sex: 5 female and 14 male.
- Environment: Agelenopsis has been sighted 53 times outdoors, and 30 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, Connecticut, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Agelenopsis has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 2
- February: 1
- March: 1
- April: 3
- May:
- June: 1
- July: 7
- August: 6
- September: 23
- October: 26
- November: 3
- December: 4