Eresus
(Ladybird Spiders)

Eresus, commonly known as Ladybird Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Eresidae. Eresus spiders have been sighted 17 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Eresus includes 5 countries and 0 states in the United States. Eresus is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

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).