Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Ctenidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Wandering Spiders
Author
Eugen von Keyserling, 1877
Sightings Overview
There have been 53 confirmed sightings of Ctenidae (Wandering Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 28, 2019 by Spider ID member hugo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 53 sightings because of certain Ctenidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Ctenidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 52)
- Sex: 2 female and 12 male.
- Environment: Ctenidae has been sighted 28 times outdoors, and 30 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (13). Low foliage (3). Ground layer (7). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Forest (4).
Location and Range
Ctenidae (Wandering Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Honduras, India, Mexico, Panama, Peru, United States.
Ctenidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.
Seasonality
Ctenidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 1
- February: 2
- March: 8
- April: 17
- May: 14
- June: 3
- July:
- August:
- September: 1
- October: 1
- November: 2
- December: 3