Peucetia

Peucetia is a genus of spiders in the family Oxyopidae. Peucetia spiders have been sighted 32 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Peucetia includes 4 countries and 9 states in the United States. Peucetia is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of September.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Author

Tamerlan Teodor Thorell, 1869

Sightings Overview

There have been 32 confirmed sightings of Peucetia, with the most recent sighting submitted on October 3, 2019 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 32 sightings because of certain Peucetia sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 21% of the time, Peucetia spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 24)
Sex: 12 female and 3 male.
Environment: Peucetia has been sighted 29 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (11). On flower (4). Low foliage (10). High foliage (1). Forest (1). Desert area (2).