Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Pisauridae
Common Name (AAS
)
Nursery Web Spiders
Author
Eugène Simon, 1890
Sightings Overview
There have been 870 confirmed sightings of Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on July 16, 2020 by Spider ID member sumara. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 870 sightings because of certain Pisauridae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Pisauridae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 769)
- Sex: 74 female and 83 male.
- Environment: Pisauridae has been sighted 584 times outdoors, and 295 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (313). On flower (6). Low foliage (50). High foliage (37). Ground layer (61). Under rock or debris (31). Freshwater river, lake, stream (46). Saltwater (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (7). Forest (31). Cave (1).
Location and Range
Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Greece, India, Ireland, Malaysia, Montenegro, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Spain, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe.
Pisauridae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, None, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Pisauridae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 13
- February: 19
- March: 47
- April: 138
- May: 381
- June: 131
- July: 17
- August: 31
- September: 19
- October: 34
- November: 10
- December: 17