Scotophaeus

Scotophaeus is a genus of spiders in the family Gnaphosidae. Scotophaeus spiders have been sighted 53 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Scotophaeus includes 4 countries and 4 states in the United States. Scotophaeus is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Gnaphosidae
Genus: Scotophaeus

Author

Eugène Simon, 1893

Sightings Overview

There have been 53 confirmed sightings of Scotophaeus, with the most recent sighting submitted on October 26, 2019 by Spider ID member mamawnanna. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 53 sightings because of certain Scotophaeus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 6% of the time, Scotophaeus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 33)
Sex: 12 female and 3 male.
Environment: Scotophaeus has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 26 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (7).