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 223 confirmed sightings of Dysderidae (Dysderid Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 24, 2025 by Spider ID member undhockey. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 223 sightings because of certain Dysderidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dysderidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 222)
- Sex: 11 female and 8 male.
- Environment: Dysderidae has been sighted 97 times outdoors, and 143 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (35). Low foliage (6). High foliage (1). Ground layer (20). Under rock or debris (30). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Cave (4).
Location and Range
Dysderidae (Dysderid Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Portugal, Slovakia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Dysderidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dysderidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 15
- February: 16
- March: 31
- April: 64
- May: 53
- June: 8
- July: 7
- August: 3
- September: 6
- October: 8
- November: 7
- December: 4