Thanatus

Thanatus is a genus of spiders in the family Philodromidae. Thanatus spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Thanatus includes 2 countries and 6 states in the United States. Thanatus is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Philodromidae
Genus: Thanatus

Author

Carl Ludwig Koch, 1837

Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Thanatus, with the most recent sighting submitted on February 17, 2025 by Spider ID member kusapheal. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 8 sightings because of certain Thanatus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 13% of the time, Thanatus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Thanatus has been sighted 10 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (2). High foliage (1). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (1).