Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Pisauridae
- Genus: Dolomedes
Common Name (AAS
)
Fishing Spiders
Other Common Names
Nursery Web Spiders, Raft Spiders, Dock Spiders
Author
Pierre André Latreille, 1804
Sightings Overview
There have been 429 confirmed sightings of Dolomedes (Fishing Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on October 28, 2023 by Spider ID member seesawsapp. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 429 sightings because of certain Dolomedes sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dolomedes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 429)
- Sex: 14 female and 15 male.
- Environment: Dolomedes has been sighted 312 times outdoors, and 188 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (154). On flower (1). Low foliage (10). High foliage (30). Ground layer (23). Under rock or debris (25). Freshwater river, lake, stream (38). Saltwater (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (7). Forest (23).
Location and Range
Dolomedes (Fishing Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Estonia, Finland, New Zealand, Pakistan, United Kingdom, United States.
Dolomedes has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dolomedes has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 4
- February: 7
- March: 25
- April: 88
- May: 182
- June: 48
- July: 8
- August: 21
- September: 17
- October: 16
- November: 3
- December: 10