Pachygnatha
(Thick-jawed Orb-weavers)

Pachygnatha, commonly known as Thick-jawed Orb-weavers, is a genus of spiders in the family Tetragnathidae. Pachygnatha spiders have been sighted 3 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Pachygnatha includes 1 countries and 3 states in the United States. Pachygnatha is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of February.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Tetragnathidae
Genus: Pachygnatha

Common Name (AAS)

Thickjawed Orbweavers

Author

Sundevall, 1823

Sightings Overview

There have been 3 confirmed sightings of Pachygnatha (Thick-jawed Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 5, 2019 by Spider ID member fuller. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 3 sightings because of certain Pachygnatha sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 0% of the time, Pachygnatha spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 3)
Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
Environment: Pachygnatha has been sighted 1 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
Outdoors: Low foliage (1).