Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Theridiidae
- Genus: Steatoda
- Species: Steatoda borealis
Author
Nicholas Marcellus Hentz, 1850
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Sightings Overview
There have been 67 confirmed sightings of Steatoda borealis, with the most recent sighting submitted on April 25, 2020 by Spider ID member leadfoot. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 67 sightings because of certain Steatoda borealis sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 37% of the time, Steatoda borealis spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 67)
- Sex: 6 female and 26 male.
- Environment: Steatoda borealis has been sighted 16 times outdoors, and 51 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (12). High foliage (1). Ground layer (1). Under rock or debris (1). Forest (1).
Location and Range
Steatoda borealis has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Steatoda borealis has also been sighted in the following states: Alaska, Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Steatoda borealis has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 3
- February: 2
- March: 6
- April: 16
- May: 19
- June: 3
- July:
- August: 1
- September: 1
- October: 6
- November: 5
- December: 5