Atypidae
(Purse-web Spiders)

The spider family Atypidae, commonly known as Purse-web Spiders, have been sighted 4 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Atypidae includes 1 countries and 3 states in the United States. Atypidae is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of June.

Overview

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Atypidae

Other Common Names

Purse-web Spiders

Author

Thorell,1870

Sightings Overview

There have been 4 confirmed sightings of Atypidae (Purse-web Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 24, 2019 by Spider ID member fowlerok. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 4 sightings because of certain Atypidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 0% of the time, Atypidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 4)
Sex: 1 female and 2 male.
Environment: Atypidae has been sighted 4 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). Ground layer (1). Forest (1).