Pityohyphantes
(Hammock Spiders)

Pityohyphantes, commonly known as Hammock Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Linyphiidae. Pityohyphantes spiders have been sighted 13 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Pityohyphantes includes 2 countries and 8 states in the United States. Pityohyphantes is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of December.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Other Common Names

Hammock Spiders

Author

Eugène Simon, 1929

Sightings Overview

There have been 13 confirmed sightings of Pityohyphantes (Hammock Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on October 2, 2019 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 13 sightings because of certain Pityohyphantes sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 64% of the time, Pityohyphantes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 11)
Sex: 2 female and 6 male.
Environment: Pityohyphantes has been sighted 8 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). Low foliage (1). Ground layer (1). Forest (1).