Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Agelenidae
- Genus: Eratigena
- Species: Eratigena duellica
Common Name (AAS
)
Giant House Spider
Other Common Names
Giant House Spider, Greater European House Spider
Author
(Simon, 1875)
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 50 confirmed sightings of Eratigena duellica (Giant House Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 23, 2020 by Spider ID member mmckay. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 50 sightings because of certain Eratigena duellica sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 14% of the time, Eratigena duellica spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 50)
- Sex: 1 female and 3 male.
- Environment: Eratigena duellica has been sighted 21 times outdoors, and 35 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (10). Ground layer (6). Under rock or debris (4). Forest (1).
Location and Range
Eratigena duellica (Giant House Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United Kingdom, United States.
Eratigena duellica has also been sighted in the following states: Oregon, Washington.
Seasonality
Eratigena duellica has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 2
- February: 3
- March: 7
- April: 14
- May: 12
- June: 1
- July:
- August: 1
- September: 2
- October: 8
- November:
- December: