Loxosceles
(Recluse Spiders)

Loxosceles, commonly known as Recluse Spiders, is a genus of spiders in the family Sicariidae. Loxosceles spiders have been sighted 110 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Loxosceles includes 9 countries and 18 states in the United States. Loxosceles is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of May.

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 110 confirmed sightings of Loxosceles (Recluse Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on March 4, 2025 by Spider ID member schloegz. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 110 sightings because of certain Loxosceles sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 6% of the time, Loxosceles spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 110)
Sex: 5 female and 41 male.
Environment: Loxosceles has been sighted 12 times outdoors, and 102 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). 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, India, Israel, Mexico, Qatar, Spain, United States, Zimbabwe.

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