Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Scytodidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Spitting Spiders
Author
John Blackwall, 1864
Sightings Overview
There have been 123 confirmed sightings of Scytodidae (Spitting Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 3, 2025 by Spider ID member jack-loper. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 123 sightings because of certain Scytodidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 3% of the time, Scytodidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 121)
- Sex: 1 female and 2 male.
- Environment: Scytodidae has been sighted 12 times outdoors, and 109 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (7). High foliage (1). Under rock or debris (3). Open field, pasture, grassland (1).
Location and Range
Scytodidae (Spitting Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Argentina, Australia, Belize, Germany, Hungary, India, Puerto Rico, Serbia, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States.
Scytodidae has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nevada, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington.
Seasonality
Scytodidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 6
- February: 9
- March: 21
- April: 26
- May: 28
- June: 8
- July: 3
- August: 1
- September: 2
- October: 10
- November: 2
- December: 5