Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Desidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Desid Spiders
Other Common Names
Intertidal Spiders
Author
Reginald Innes Pocock, 1895
Sightings Overview
There have been 103 confirmed sightings of Desidae (Intertidal Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 20, 2020 by Spider ID member miamacbeth. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 103 sightings because of certain Desidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 19% of the time, Desidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 86)
- Sex: 14 female and 28 male.
- Environment: Desidae has been sighted 32 times outdoors, and 56 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (21). Low foliage (4). High foliage (2). Ground layer (3). Under rock or debris (2).
Location and Range
Desidae (Intertidal Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States.
Desidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas.
Seasonality
Desidae has been primarily sighted during the month of February.
- January: 16
- February: 19
- March: 5
- April: 12
- May: 18
- June: 2
- July:
- August: 1
- September:
- October: 8
- November: 1
- December: 10