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 46 confirmed sightings of Eratigena duellica (Giant House Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on June 13, 2019 by Spider ID member pnwdrea. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 46 sightings because of certain Eratigena duellica sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 13% of the time, Eratigena duellica spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 46)
- Sex: 1 female and 3 male.
- Environment: Eratigena duellica has been sighted 20 times outdoors, and 32 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (9). 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:
- March: 7
- April: 13
- May: 12
- June: 1
- July:
- August: 1
- September: 2
- October: 8
- November:
- December: