Aculepeira

Aculepeira is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Aculepeira spiders have been sighted 3 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Aculepeira includes 3 countries and 0 states in the United States. Aculepeira is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of June.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Aculepeira

Author

Ralph Vary Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie, 1942

Sightings Overview

There have been 3 confirmed sightings of Aculepeira, with the most recent sighting submitted on May 7, 2018 by Spider ID member curiousagelena. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 3 sightings because of certain Aculepeira sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 100% of the time, Aculepeira spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 3)
Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
Environment: Aculepeira has been sighted 5 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Low foliage (2). Ground layer (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1).