Oxyopes

Oxyopes is a genus of spiders in the family Oxyopidae. Oxyopes spiders have been sighted 40 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Oxyopes includes 10 countries and 4 states in the United States. Oxyopes is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Oxyopidae
Genus: Oxyopes

Author

Pierre André Latreille, 1804

Sightings Overview

There have been 40 confirmed sightings of Oxyopes, with the most recent sighting submitted on August 3, 2019 by Spider ID member rollx. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 40 sightings because of certain Oxyopes sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 10% of the time, Oxyopes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 40)
Sex: 2 female and 5 male.
Environment: Oxyopes has been sighted 37 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (12). On flower (2). Low foliage (17). High foliage (2). Ground layer (1). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2).

Location and Range

Oxyopes has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Canada, India, Nepal, New Zealand, Philippines, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, United States.

Oxyopes has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Texas.