Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Sicariidae
- Genus: Loxosceles
- Species: Loxosceles rufescens
Common Name (AAS
)
Mediterranean Recluse
Other Common Names
Mediterranean Recluse Spider
Author
Léon Jean Marie Dufour, 1820
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 10 confirmed sightings of Loxosceles rufescens (Mediterranean Recluse), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 26, 2020 by Spider ID member 7517230218. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 10 sightings because of certain Loxosceles rufescens sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 10% of the time, Loxosceles rufescens spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 10)
- Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Loxosceles rufescens has been sighted 0 times outdoors, and 10 times indoors.
- Outdoors:
Location and Range
Loxosceles rufescens (Mediterranean Recluse) has been sighted in the following countries: Algeria, France, India, Israel, Qatar, Spain, United States.
Loxosceles rufescens has also been sighted in the following states: Hawaii.
Seasonality
Loxosceles rufescens has been primarily sighted during the month of June.
- January:
- February: 1
- March: 1
- April: 1
- May: 1
- June: 3
- July: 2
- August:
- September:
- October:
- November:
- December: 1