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 485 confirmed sightings of Dolomedes (Fishing 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 485 sightings because of certain Dolomedes sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 8% of the time, Dolomedes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 418)
- Sex: 46 female and 28 male.
- Environment: Dolomedes has been sighted 301 times outdoors, and 185 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (147). On flower (1). Low foliage (10). High foliage (30). Ground layer (22). Under rock or debris (24). Freshwater river, lake, stream (37). Saltwater (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (7). Forest (22).
Location and Range
Dolomedes (Fishing Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Estonia, Finland, New Zealand, Pakistan, United States.
Dolomedes 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, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Dolomedes has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 5
- February: 7
- March: 27
- April: 90
- May: 200
- June: 68
- July: 12
- August: 23
- September: 16
- October: 17
- November: 5
- December: 11