Larinioides
(Furrow Spiders)

Larinioides, commonly known as Furrow Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Larinioides spiders have been sighted 179 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Larinioides includes 7 countries and 33 states in the United States. Larinioides is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Other Common Names

Furrow Spiders

Author

Carl Alexander Clerck, 1757

Sightings Overview

There have been 179 confirmed sightings of Larinioides (Furrow Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on July 14, 2020 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 179 sightings because of certain Larinioides sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 54% of the time, Larinioides spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 176)
Sex: 9 female and 26 male.
Environment: Larinioides has been sighted 136 times outdoors, and 55 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (114). On flower (1). Low foliage (4). High foliage (3). Ground layer (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (7). Saltwater (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (1). Forest (2).

Location and Range

Larinioides (Furrow Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Greece, Ireland, Switzerland, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States.

Larinioides has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.