Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Dictynidae
Other Common Names
Mesh Web Weavers
Author
Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, 1871
Sightings Overview
There have been 15 confirmed sightings of Dictynidae (Mesh Web Weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 21, 2024 by Spider ID member tobitobias. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 15 sightings because of certain Dictynidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 40% of the time, Dictynidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 15)
- Sex: 2 female and 6 male.
- Environment: Dictynidae has been sighted 13 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). Low foliage (9). High foliage (1). Forest (1).
Location and Range
Dictynidae (Mesh Web Weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Portugal, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Dictynidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Louisiana, Maine, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dictynidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 1
- February: 2
- March:
- April: 7
- May: 1
- June:
- July: 1
- August:
- September: 1
- October: 1
- November: 1
- December: