Pityohyphantes
(Hammock Spiders)

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 14 confirmed sightings of Pityohyphantes (Hammock Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 25, 2020 by Spider ID member keyojimbo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 14 sightings because of certain Pityohyphantes sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 67% of the time, Pityohyphantes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 12)
• Sex: 2 female and 6 male.
• Environment: Pityohyphantes has been sighted 9 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). Low foliage (2). Ground layer (1). Forest (1).

Location and Range

Pityohyphantes (Hammock Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Pityohyphantes has also been sighted in the following states: Idaho, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Virginia, Wisconsin.

Seasonality

Pityohyphantes has been primarily sighted during the month of December.

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