Palystes
(Rain Spiders)

Taxonomic Hierarchy

• Kingdom: Animalia
• Phylum: Arthropoda
• Class: Arachnida
• Order: Araneae
• Suborder: Araneomorphae
• Family: Sparassidae
• Genus: Palystes

Other Common Names

Rain Spiders, Lizard-eating Spiders

Author

L. Koch, 1875

Sightings Overview

There have been 16 confirmed sightings of Palystes (Rain Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 22, 2020 by Spider ID member stempo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 16 sightings because of certain Palystes sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 0% of the time, Palystes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 16)
• Sex: 2 female and 2 male.
• Environment: Palystes has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 9 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (7).

Location and Range

Palystes (Rain Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: South Africa, Zambia.

Seasonality

Palystes has been primarily sighted during the month of April.

• January:
• February: 1
• March: 3
• April: 5
• May: 2
• June:
• July:
• August:
• September:
• October: 2
• November:
• December: 3