Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Thomisidae
- Genus: Xysticus
Common Name (AAS
)
Ground Crab Spiders
Author
Sundevall,1833
Sightings Overview
There have been 120 confirmed sightings of Xysticus (Ground Crab Spiders), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 4, 2019 by Spider ID member jodys. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 120 sightings because of certain Xysticus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 7% of the time, Xysticus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 120)
- Sex: 4 female and 21 male.
- Environment: Xysticus has been sighted 56 times outdoors, and 76 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (20). On flower (3). Low foliage (8). High foliage (2). Ground layer (14). Under rock or debris (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (3).
Location and Range
Xysticus (Ground Crab Spiders) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States.
Xysticus has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Xysticus has been primarily sighted during the month of May.
- January: 3
- February: 7
- March: 16
- April: 16
- May: 45
- June: 9
- July: 4
- August: 1
- September: 3
- October: 9
- November: 2
- December: 5