Holocnemus pluchei
(Marbled Cellar Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Holocnemus pluchei, commonly known as Marbled Cellar Spider, belongs to the genus Holocnemus, in the family Pholcidae. Holocnemus pluchei spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Holocnemus pluchei includes 1 countries and 2 states in the United States. Holocnemus pluchei is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Holocnemus
Species: Holocnemus pluchei

Common Name (AAS)

Marbled Cellar Spider

Other Common Names

Marbled Cellar Spider

Author

(Scopoli, 1763)

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Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Holocnemus pluchei (Marbled Cellar Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 18, 2019 by Spider ID member kameronmary. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 8 sightings because of certain Holocnemus pluchei sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 88% of the time, Holocnemus pluchei spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
Sex: 1 female and 1 male.
Environment: Holocnemus pluchei has been sighted 5 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5).