Trachelas

Trachelas is a genus of spiders in the family Trachelidae. Trachelas spiders have been sighted 73 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Trachelas includes 2 countries and 24 states in the United States. Trachelas is most often sighted indoors, and during the month of October.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Trachelidae
Genus: Trachelas

Author

Ludwig Carl Christian Koch, 1872

Sightings Overview

There have been 73 confirmed sightings of Trachelas, with the most recent sighting submitted on December 14, 2025 by Spider ID member tangledweb. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 73 sightings because of certain Trachelas sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 4% of the time, Trachelas spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 73)
Sex: 0 female and 7 male.
Environment: Trachelas has been sighted 10 times outdoors, and 64 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). Low foliage (3). Ground layer (2).

Location and Range

Trachelas has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.

Trachelas has also been sighted in the following states: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C..