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).
Location and Range
Scotophaeus has been sighted in the following countries: Ireland, Netherlands, United Kingdom, United States.
Scotophaeus has also been sighted in the following states: California, Colorado, Oregon, Washington.
Seasonality
Scotophaeus has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January:
- February: 1
- March: 2
- April: 8
- May: 18
- June: 4
- July: 6
- August: 3
- September: 1
- October: 7
- November:
- December: