Tibellus
(Slender Crab Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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

Common Name (AAS)

Slender Crab Spiders

Other Common Names

Slender Crab Spiders

Author

Simon, 1875

Sightings Overview

There have been 17 confirmed sightings of Tibellus (Slender Crab Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on June 26, 2025 by Spider ID member thulhu. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 17 sightings because of certain Tibellus sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 12% of the time, Tibellus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 17)
• Sex: 1 female and 0 male.
• Environment: Tibellus has been sighted 12 times outdoors, and 8 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). On flower (1). Low foliage (4). Open field, pasture, grassland (2).

Location and Range

Tibellus (Slender Crab Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Tibellus has also been sighted in the following states: California, Connecticut, Georgia, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas.

Seasonality

Tibellus has been primarily sighted during the month of June.

• January:
• February: 1
• March: 2
• April: 3
• May: 3
• June: 6
• July:
• August: 1
• September: 1
• October:
• November:
• December: