Phidippus otiosus
(Canopy Jumping Spider)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Salticidae
• Genus: Phidippus
• Species: Phidippus otiosus

Other Common Names

Canopy Jumping Spider

Author

Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, 1846

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Sightings Overview

There have been 17 confirmed sightings of Phidippus otiosus (Canopy Jumping Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 11, 2020 by Spider ID member jco. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 17 sightings because of certain Phidippus otiosus sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 6% of the time, Phidippus otiosus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 17)
• Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
• Environment: Phidippus otiosus has been sighted 11 times outdoors, and 6 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (10). Low foliage (1).

Location and Range

Phidippus otiosus (Canopy Jumping Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: United States.

Phidippus otiosus has also been sighted in the following states: Florida, Georgia, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia.

Seasonality

Phidippus otiosus has been primarily sighted during the month of February.

• January: 1
• February: 3
• March: 3
• April:
• May: 2
• June:
• July:
• August:
• September:
• October: 3
• November: 2
• December: 3