Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Oxyopidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Lynx Spiders
Author
Tamerlan Thorell, 1870
Sightings Overview
There have been 89 confirmed sightings of Oxyopidae (Lynx Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 20, 2025 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 89 sightings because of certain Oxyopidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 16% of the time, Oxyopidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 89)
- Sex: 11 female and 11 male.
- Environment: Oxyopidae has been sighted 89 times outdoors, and 7 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (27). On flower (12). Low foliage (39). High foliage (3). Ground layer (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (1). Desert area (2).
Location and Range
Oxyopidae (Lynx Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Canada, India, Italy, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United States.
Oxyopidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas.
Seasonality
Oxyopidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 2
- February: 8
- March: 13
- April: 12
- May: 17
- June: 4
- July: 5
- August: 10
- September: 7
- October: 5
- November: 4
- December: 2