Frontinella

Frontinella is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae. Frontinella spiders have been sighted 10 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Frontinella includes 1 countries and 7 states in the United States. Frontinella is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of April.

Overview

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Frontinella

Author

F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1902

Sightings Overview

There have been 10 confirmed sightings of Frontinella, with the most recent sighting submitted on January 27, 2026 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 10 sightings because of certain Frontinella sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 80% of the time, Frontinella spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 10)
Sex: 3 female and 2 male.
Environment: Frontinella has been sighted 17 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (7). High foliage (3). Ground layer (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (3).

Location and Range

Frontinella has been sighted in the following countries: United States.

Frontinella has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Indiana, Maryland, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina.

Seasonality

Frontinella has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

January:
February:
March: 1
April: 4
May: 3
June: 1
July:
August:
September: 1
October:
November:
December:

Frontinella Species

Frontinella pyramitela
(Bowl and Doily Weaver)

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