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 51 confirmed sightings of Linyphiidae (Money Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 23, 2018 by Spider ID member gladius650. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 51 sightings because of certain Linyphiidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 57% of the time, Linyphiidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 49)
- Sex: 11 female and 16 male.
- Environment: Linyphiidae has been sighted 49 times outdoors, and 10 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (13). On flower (2). Low foliage (16). High foliage (3). Ground layer (6). Open field, pasture, grassland (3). Forest (5). Cave (1).
Location and Range
Linyphiidae (Money Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, France, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States.
Linyphiidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Connecticut, Idaho, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, South Carolina, Virginia.
Seasonality
Linyphiidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 3
- February: 1
- March: 7
- April: 6
- May: 8
- June: 8
- July: 3
- August: 2
- September: 2
- October: 3
- November: 5
- December: 3