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 84 confirmed sightings of Desidae (Intertidal Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 15, 2019 by Spider ID member bubblecrisis. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 84 sightings because of certain Desidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 18% of the time, Desidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 67)
- Sex: 14 female and 24 male.
- Environment: Desidae has been sighted 22 times outdoors, and 45 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (17). Low foliage (3). High foliage (1). Under rock or debris (1).
Location and Range
Desidae (Intertidal Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United States.
Desidae has also been sighted in the following states: California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas.
Seasonality
Desidae has been primarily sighted during the month of January.
- January: 16
- February: 15
- March: 2
- April: 6
- May: 14
- June: 2
- July:
- August: 1
- September:
- October: 6
- November: 1
- December: 10