Phylloneta sisyphia
(Mother-care Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Phylloneta sisyphia, commonly known as Mother-care Spider, belongs to the genus Phylloneta, in the family Theridiidae. Phylloneta sisyphia spiders have been sighted 2 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Phylloneta sisyphia includes 1 countries and 0 states in the United States. Phylloneta sisyphia is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of December.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Theridiidae
Genus: Phylloneta
Species: Phylloneta sisyphia

Other Common Names

Mother-care Spider

Author

(Clerck, 1757)

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Sightings Overview

There have been 2 confirmed sightings of Phylloneta sisyphia (Mother-care Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on November 25, 2018 by Spider ID member yasin42. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 2 sightings because of certain Phylloneta sisyphia sightings reporting incomplete data.

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