Dolomedes
(Fishing Spiders)

Dolomedes, commonly known as Fishing Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Pisauridae. Dolomedes spiders have been sighted 485 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Dolomedes includes 6 countries and 37 states in the United States. Dolomedes 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
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.