Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Dysderidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Dysderid Spiders
Other Common Names
Long-fanged Six-eyed Spiders, Cell Spiders
Author
Carl Ludwig Koch, 1837
Sightings Overview
There have been 213 confirmed sightings of Dysderidae (Dysderid Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on January 24, 2021 by Spider ID member only8plus92. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 213 sightings because of certain Dysderidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dysderidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 194)
- Sex: 21 female and 13 male.
- Environment: Dysderidae has been sighted 88 times outdoors, and 122 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (30). Low foliage (6). High foliage (1). Ground layer (19). Under rock or debris (27). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Cave (4).
Location and Range
Dysderidae (Dysderid Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Dysderidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dysderidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 13
- February: 15
- March: 30
- April: 61
- May: 58
- June: 6
- July: 2
- August:
- September: 3
- October: 8
- November: 3
- December: 3