Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Dysderidae
- Genus: Dysdera
Author
Pierre André Latreille, 1804
Sightings Overview
There have been 189 confirmed sightings of Dysdera, with the most recent sighting submitted on August 7, 2023 by Spider ID member bugcheck. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 189 sightings because of certain Dysdera sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dysdera spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 188)
- Sex: 11 female and 5 male.
- Environment: Dysdera has been sighted 87 times outdoors, and 117 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (30). Low foliage (6). High foliage (1). Ground layer (19). Under rock or debris (26). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Cave (4).
Location and Range
Dysdera has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Ireland, Lebanon, Mexico, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
Dysdera 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
Dysdera has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 13
- February: 14
- March: 28
- April: 58
- May: 50
- June: 5
- July: 1
- August: 2
- September: 3
- October: 8
- November: 3
- December: 3