Hersiliidae
(Two-tailed Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Hersiliidae

Other Common Names

Longspinneret Spiders, Two-tailed Spiders, Tree Trunk Spiders

Author

Thorell, 1870

Sightings Overview

There have been 13 confirmed sightings of Hersiliidae (Two-tailed Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on January 10, 2020 by Spider ID member kimurgor. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 13 sightings because of certain Hersiliidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 15% of the time, Hersiliidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 13)
• Sex: 1 female and 0 male.
• Environment: Hersiliidae has been sighted 13 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). High foliage (7). Under rock or debris (1). Forest (1).

Location and Range

Hersiliidae (Two-tailed Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, India, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Spain.

Seasonality

Hersiliidae has been primarily sighted during the month of March.

• January: 2
• February: 1
• March: 3
• April: 3
• May:
• June:
• July: 1
• August:
• September:
• October: 2
• November:
• December: 1