Tegenaria

Tegenaria is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae. Tegenaria spiders have been sighted 47 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Tegenaria includes 2 countries and 21 states in the United States. Tegenaria is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of January.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Agelenidae
Genus: Tegenaria

Author

Pierre Latreille, 1804

Sightings Overview

There have been 47 confirmed sightings of Tegenaria, with the most recent sighting submitted on April 15, 2026 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 47 sightings because of certain Tegenaria sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 22% of the time, Tegenaria spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 46)
Sex: 3 female and 6 male.
Environment: Tegenaria has been sighted 3 times outdoors, and 43 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (3).

Location and Range

Tegenaria has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Tegenaria has also been sighted in the following states: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin.