Loxosceles
(Recluse Spiders)

Loxosceles, commonly known as Recluse Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Sicariidae. Loxosceles spiders have been sighted 87 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Loxosceles includes 7 countries and 16 states in the United States. Loxosceles is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Sicariidae
Genus: Loxosceles

Common Name (AAS)

Recluse Spiders

Other Common Names

Violin Spiders, Six-eyed Brown Spiders, Brown Spiders, Fiddle-back Spiders

Author

Karl Heineken & Richard Thomas Lowe, 1832

Sightings Overview

There have been 87 confirmed sightings of Loxosceles (Recluse Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 11, 2019 by Spider ID member pfavela. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 87 sightings because of certain Loxosceles sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 4% of the time, Loxosceles spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 68)
Sex: 18 female and 29 male.
Environment: Loxosceles has been sighted 9 times outdoors, and 63 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Ground layer (2). Under rock or debris (3). Forest (2). Desert area (1).

Location and Range

Loxosceles (Recluse Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Algeria, France, Israel, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, United States.

Loxosceles has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas.