Tegenaria

Tegenaria is a genus of spiders in the family Agelenidae. Tegenaria spiders have been sighted 62 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Tegenaria includes 8 countries and 20 states in the United States. Tegenaria is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

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 62 confirmed sightings of Tegenaria, with the most recent sighting submitted on August 3, 2019 by Spider ID member fryejo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 62 sightings because of certain Tegenaria sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 20% of the time, Tegenaria spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 55)
Sex: 5 female and 9 male.
Environment: Tegenaria has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 48 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (6). Under rock or debris (1).

Location and Range

Tegenaria has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Greece, Israel, Turkey, United States.

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