Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Theridiidae
- Genus: Steatoda
- Species: Steatoda nobilis
Other Common Names
Noble False Widow, False Widow
Author
Tamerlan Thorell, 1875
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Sightings Overview
There have been 171 confirmed sightings of Steatoda nobilis (Noble False Widow), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 18, 2024 by Spider ID member micah. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 171 sightings because of certain Steatoda nobilis sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 33% of the time, Steatoda nobilis spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 171)
- Sex: 3 female and 22 male.
- Environment: Steatoda nobilis has been sighted 100 times outdoors, and 75 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (81). Low foliage (4). High foliage (1). Ground layer (6). Under rock or debris (7). Open field, pasture, grassland (1).
Location and Range
Steatoda nobilis (Noble False Widow) has been sighted in the following countries: Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Ireland, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, United States.
Steatoda nobilis has also been sighted in the following states: California.
Seasonality
Steatoda nobilis has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 12
- February: 12
- March: 25
- April: 25
- May: 18
- June: 9
- July: 5
- August: 7
- September: 1
- October: 29
- November: 11
- December: 17