Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Linyphiidae
Common Name (AAS)
Dwarf and Sheetweb Weavers
Other Common Names
Money Spiders
Author
John Blackwall, 1859
Sightings Overview
There have been 87 confirmed sightings of Linyphiidae (Money Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 30, 2024 by Spider ID member freki123. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 87 sightings because of certain Linyphiidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 60% of the time, Linyphiidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 87)
- Sex: 12 female and 23 male.
- Environment: Linyphiidae has been sighted 84 times outdoors, and 16 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (25). On flower (3). Low foliage (26). High foliage (6). Ground layer (10). Open field, pasture, grassland (7). Forest (6). Cave (1).
Location and Range
Linyphiidae (Money Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, France, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Linyphiidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Linyphiidae has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 3
- February: 3
- March: 7
- April: 21
- May: 16
- June: 11
- July: 3
- August: 6
- September: 5
- October: 4
- November: 5
- December: 3