Metepeira

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Author

F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1903

Sightings Overview

There have been 13 confirmed sightings of Metepeira, with the most recent sighting submitted on August 6, 2024 by Spider ID member derin-walters. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 13 sightings because of certain Metepeira sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 77% of the time, Metepeira spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 13)
• Sex: 1 female and 1 male.
• Environment: Metepeira has been sighted 13 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (7). Low foliage (4). Ground layer (2).

Location and Range

Metepeira has been sighted in the following countries: United States.

Metepeira has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, Kentucky, South Carolina.

Seasonality

Metepeira has been primarily sighted during the month of March.

• January:
• February:
• March: 4
• April: 3
• May: 2
• June:
• July: 3
• August: 1
• September:
• October:
• November:
• December: