Gea

Gea is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Gea spiders have been sighted 12 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Gea includes 3 countries and 6 states in the United States. Gea is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of July.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Author

C. L. Koch, 1843

Sightings Overview

There have been 12 confirmed sightings of Gea, with the most recent sighting submitted on July 3, 2023 by Spider ID member jns122333. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 12 sightings because of certain Gea sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 58% of the time, Gea spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 12)
Sex: 1 female and 3 male.
Environment: Gea has been sighted 8 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). On flower (1). Low foliage (2). Ground layer (1).