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 124 confirmed sightings of Loxosceles (Recluse 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 Loxosceles sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 7% of the time, Loxosceles spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 105)
- Sex: 18 female and 45 male.
- Environment: Loxosceles 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
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, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia.
Seasonality
Loxosceles 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