Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Micrathena
Other Common Names
Micrathena Spiders
Author
Carl Jakob Sundevall, 1833
Sightings Overview
There have been 46 confirmed sightings of Micrathena (Micrathena Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 11, 2024 by Spider ID member carlad. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 46 sightings because of certain Micrathena sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 72% of the time, Micrathena spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 46)
- Sex: 7 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Micrathena has been sighted 55 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (21). Low foliage (9). High foliage (16). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Forest (8).
Location and Range
Micrathena (Micrathena Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Micrathena has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Micrathena has been primarily sighted during the month of August.
- January:
- February:
- March:
- April:
- May: 4
- June: 3
- July: 10
- August: 15
- September: 9
- October: 5
- November:
- December: