Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Sicariidae
Common Name (AAS
)
Sixeyed Sicariid Spiders
Other Common Names
Recluse Spiders, Violin Spiders, Six-eyed Brown Spiders, Six-eyed Sand Spiders, Assassin Spiders
Author
Eugen von Keyserling, 1880
Sightings Overview
There have been 124 confirmed sightings of Sicariidae (Six-eyed Sicariid Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 24, 2021 by Spider ID member turkeyman. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 124 sightings because of certain Sicariidae sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 7% of the time, Sicariidae spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 105)
- Sex: 18 female and 45 male.
- Environment: Sicariidae has been sighted 12 times outdoors, and 97 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (3). Forest (2). Desert area (1).
Location and Range
Sicariidae (Six-eyed Sicariid Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Algeria, France, India, Israel, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, United States, Zimbabwe.
Sicariidae has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
Seasonality
Sicariidae has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 10
- February: 10
- March: 6
- April: 20
- May: 32
- June: 23
- July: 4
- August: 1
- September: 1
- October: 4
- November: 2
- December: 3