Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Gnaphosidae
- Genus: Herpyllus
Other Common Names
Stealthy Ground Spiders, Flat-bellied Ground Spiders, Ground Spiders, Parson Spiders (some species)
Author
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, 1832
Sightings Overview
There have been 145 confirmed sightings of Herpyllus, with the most recent sighting submitted on November 19, 2023 by Spider ID member spidersethco. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 145 sightings because of certain Herpyllus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 3% of the time, Herpyllus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 145)
- Sex: 1 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Herpyllus has been sighted 5 times outdoors, and 140 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Ground layer (1).
Location and Range
Herpyllus has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Herpyllus has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Seasonality
Herpyllus has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 8
- February: 10
- March: 22
- April: 22
- May: 48
- June: 11
- July: 2
- August: 9
- September: 2
- October: 6
- November: 1
- December: 4