Selenops
(Flatties)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Selenopidae
• Genus: Selenops

Other Common Names

Flatties, Moon-eye Spider

Author

Latreille, 1819

Sightings Overview

There have been 48 confirmed sightings of Selenops (Flatties), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 6, 2025 by Spider ID member theguyincognito. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 48 sightings because of certain Selenops sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 4% of the time, Selenops spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 47)
• Sex: 0 female and 13 male.
• Environment: Selenops has been sighted 27 times outdoors, and 22 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (22). High foliage (3). Under rock or debris (1). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1).

Location and Range

Selenops (Flatties) has been sighted in the following countries: United States.

Selenops has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, Florida, Maryland.

Seasonality

Selenops has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

• January: 2
• February: 4
• March: 9
• April: 12
• May: 10
• June: 5
• July:
• August:
• September:
• October:
• November: 1
• December: 4