Nesticodes rufipes
(Red House Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Nesticodes rufipes, commonly known as Red House Spider, belongs to the genus Nesticodes, in the family Theridiidae. Nesticodes rufipes spiders have been sighted 23 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Nesticodes rufipes includes 6 countries and 3 states in the United States. Nesticodes rufipes is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Nesticodes
Species: Nesticodes rufipes

Other Common Names

Red House Spider

Author

Pierre-Hippolyte Lucas, 1846

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Sightings Overview

There have been 23 confirmed sightings of Nesticodes rufipes (Red House Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 23, 2020 by Spider ID member hokunaniloa. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 23 sightings because of certain Nesticodes rufipes sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 48% of the time, Nesticodes rufipes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 23)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Nesticodes rufipes has been sighted 4 times outdoors, and 20 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). Ground layer (1). Desert area (1).