Oecobiidae
(Wall Spiders)

The spider family Oecobiidae, commonly known as Wall Spiders, have been sighted 28 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Oecobiidae includes 1 countries and 8 states in the United States. Oecobiidae is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of April.

Overview

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Other Common Names

Wall Spiders, Disc Web Spiders, Flatmesh Weavers

Author

John Blackwall, 1862

Sightings Overview

There have been 28 confirmed sightings of Oecobiidae (Wall Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on July 2, 2019 by Spider ID member ashton0420. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 28 sightings because of certain Oecobiidae sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 14% of the time, Oecobiidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 28)
Sex: 0 female and 5 male.
Environment: Oecobiidae has been sighted 4 times outdoors, and 24 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4).