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 44 confirmed sightings of Micrathena (Micrathena Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on September 10, 2023 by Spider ID member drinpoche. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 44 sightings because of certain Micrathena sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 73% of the time, Micrathena spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 44)
- Sex: 7 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Micrathena has been sighted 53 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (20). Low foliage (8). 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, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, 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: 9
- August: 15
- September: 8
- October: 5
- November:
- December: