Eresus
(Ladybird Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Eresidae
• Genus: Eresus

Other Common Names

Ladybird Spiders

Author

Charles Athanase Walckenaer, 1805

Sightings Overview

There have been 17 confirmed sightings of Eresus (Ladybird Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 28, 2019 by Spider ID member lush09. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 17 sightings because of certain Eresus sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 12% of the time, Eresus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 17)
• Sex: 1 female and 1 male.
• Environment: Eresus has been sighted 19 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (6). On flower (2). Ground layer (7). Under rock or debris (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (3).

Location and Range

Eresus (Ladybird Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Greece, Macedonia, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey.

Seasonality

Eresus has been primarily sighted during the month of May.

• January:
• February:
• March:
• April: 4
• May: 12
• June:
• July:
• August:
• September:
• October: 1
• November:
• December: