Lycosidae
(Wolf Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Lycosidae

Common Name (AAS)

Wolf Spiders

Author

Carl Jakob Sundevall, 1833

Sightings Overview

There have been 1075 confirmed sightings of Lycosidae (Wolf Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 12, 2026 by Spider ID member bobcuomo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 1075 sightings because of certain Lycosidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 5% of the time, Lycosidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 1074)
• Sex: 139 female and 111 male.
• Environment: Lycosidae has been sighted 623 times outdoors, and 574 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (231). On flower (2). Low foliage (35). High foliage (10). Ground layer (221). Under rock or debris (43). Freshwater river, lake, stream (24). Saltwater (5). Open field, pasture, grassland (19). Forest (19). Cave (1). Desert area (13).

Location and Range

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

Lycosidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Washington, D.C., West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.

Seasonality

Lycosidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.

• January: 43
• February: 78
• March: 112
• April: 231
• May: 341
• June: 76
• July: 18
• August: 30
• September: 23
• October: 88
• November: 18
• December: 16