Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Mygalomorphae
- Family: Antrodiaetidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Foldingdoor Spiders
Other Common Names
Folding Door Spiders, Folding Trapdoor Spiders
Author
Willis J. Gertsch, 1940
Sightings Overview
There have been 38 confirmed sightings of Antrodiaetidae (Folding-door Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on November 7, 2019 by Spider ID member pdonnini8. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 38 sightings because of certain Antrodiaetidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 5% of the time, Antrodiaetidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 38)
- Sex: 3 female and 11 male.
- Environment: Antrodiaetidae has been sighted 30 times outdoors, and 16 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (6). High foliage (1). Ground layer (17). Under rock or debris (3). Forest (3).
Location and Range
Antrodiaetidae (Folding-door Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Antrodiaetidae has also been sighted in the following states: California, Idaho, Kansas, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia.
Seasonality
Antrodiaetidae has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 3
- February:
- March: 4
- April: 9
- May: 2
- June: 1
- July: 1
- August: 2
- September: 2
- October: 12
- November: 1
- December: 1