Thanatus

Thanatus is a genus of spiders in the family Philodromidae. Thanatus spiders have been sighted 9 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Thanatus includes 2 countries and 7 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 9 confirmed sightings of Thanatus, with the most recent sighting submitted on June 12, 2026 by Spider ID member rvwalker. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 9 sightings because of certain Thanatus sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 11% of the time, Thanatus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 9)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Thanatus has been sighted 12 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). On flower (1). Low foliage (2). High foliage (1). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (1). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (1).