Pisauridae
(Nursery Web Spiders)

The spider family Pisauridae, commonly known as Nursery Web Spiders, have been sighted 532 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Pisauridae includes 16 countries and 36 states in the United States. Pisauridae is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of May.

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 532 confirmed sightings of Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 10, 2018 by Spider ID member allisonglyn. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 532 sightings because of certain Pisauridae sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 7% of the time, Pisauridae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 431)
Sex: 65 female and 65 male.
Environment: Pisauridae has been sighted 321 times outdoors, and 156 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (178). On flower (3). Low foliage (23). High foliage (21). Ground layer (43). Under rock or debris (15). Freshwater river, lake, stream (22). Saltwater (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (3). Forest (11). Cave (1).

Location and Range

Pisauridae (Nursery Web Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Bhutan, Brazil, Canada, Estonia, Finland, Greece, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Portugal, Romania, South Africa, Spain, United Kingdom, United States, Zimbabwe.

Pisauridae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arkansas, 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.