Celaenia
(Bird-dropping Spiders)

Celaenia, commonly known as Bird-dropping Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Celaenia spiders have been sighted 6 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Celaenia includes 2 countries and 0 states in the United States. Celaenia is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of March.

Overview

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Other Common Names

Bird-dropping Spiders

Author

Thorell, 1868

Sightings Overview

There have been 6 confirmed sightings of Celaenia (Bird-dropping Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 15, 2019 by Spider ID member mwollymoo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 6 sightings because of certain Celaenia sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 50% of the time, Celaenia spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 6)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Celaenia has been sighted 6 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: On flower (1). Low foliage (4). High foliage (1).