Pityohyphantes costatus
(Hammock Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Pityohyphantes costatus, commonly known as Hammock Spider, belongs to the genus Pityohyphantes, in the family Linyphiidae. Pityohyphantes costatus spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Pityohyphantes costatus includes 1 countries and 4 states in the United States. Pityohyphantes costatus 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
Species: Pityohyphantes costatus

Common Name (AAS)

Hammock Spider

Author

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, 1850

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Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Pityohyphantes costatus (Hammock Spider), 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 8 sightings because of certain Pityohyphantes costatus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 88% of the time, Pityohyphantes costatus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
Sex: 1 female and 3 male.
Environment: Pityohyphantes costatus has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). Low foliage (1). Forest (1).