Zygiella

Zygiella is a genus of spiders in the family Araneidae. Zygiella spiders have been sighted 13 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Zygiella includes 7 countries and 4 states in the United States. Zygiella is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of February.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Author

F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902

Sightings Overview

There have been 13 confirmed sightings of Zygiella, with the most recent sighting submitted on March 1, 2025 by Spider ID member tomcollins. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 13 sightings because of certain Zygiella sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 77% of the time, Zygiella spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 13)
Sex: 0 female and 1 male.
Environment: Zygiella has been sighted 8 times outdoors, and 5 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (7). Low foliage (1).