Portia

Portia is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae. Portia spiders have been sighted 2 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Portia includes 2 countries and 0 states in the United States. Portia is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of February.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Genus: Portia

Author

Blackwall,1841

Sightings Overview

There have been 2 confirmed sightings of Portia, with the most recent sighting submitted on December 5, 2019 by Spider ID member sancharini. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 2 sightings because of certain Portia sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 0% of the time, Portia spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 2)
Sex: 0 female and 1 male.
Environment: Portia has been sighted 3 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (1). Ground layer (1).