Species group · Arachnids
Spiders
WAnimals has 26 species of spider, spread across 21 families (Agelenidae, Araneidae, Ctenidae, Deinopidae, Dictynidae, Eresidae, Filistatidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Nephilidae, Oxyopidae, Pholcidae, Pisauridae, Salticidae, Segestriidae, Sicariidae, Sparassidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae, Thomisidae, Uloboridae).
- 26 species
- 21 families
- 121 countries
- 415 parks
- Length
- 0.5 cm – 35 cm
- Lifespan
- 2 – 8 years
Ranges calculated from the entries that record the figure, not from all 26.
All 26 species of spiders on WAnimals
Each one has its own full entry. This group does not replace them: it brings them together.
Chilean Recluse
Loxosceles laeta
Wasp Spider
Argiope bruennichi
Amazonian Wandering Spider
Phoneutria fera
Ogrefaced Spider
Deinopis spinosa
Zebra Jumper
Salticus scenicus
Common Stretch Spider
Tetragnatha extensa
Water Spider
Argyroneta aquatica
Mediterranean Social Spider
Stegodyphus lineatus
Brown Widow
Latrodectus geometricus
Cobweb Spider
Pholcus phalangioides
Banana Spider
Nephila clavipes
Huntsman Spider
Heteropoda venatoria
Carolina Wolf Spider
Hogna carolinensis
Redback
Latrodectus hasselti
Flying Peacock Spider
Maratus volans
Brown Recluse
Loxosceles reclusa
Labyrinth Spider
Agelena labyrinthica
Money Spider
Linyphia triangularis
Striped Lynx Spider
Oxyopes lineatus
Green Tube-web Spider
Segestria florentina
Crested Crab Spider
Xysticus cristatus
Raft Spider
Dolomedes fimbriatus
Featherleg Spider
Uloborus plumipes
Goldenrod Crab Spider
Misumena vatia
Southern House Spider
Kukulcania hibernalis
Joro Spider
Trichonephila clavata
Conservation status
No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.
See the global conservation statusWhere they live
Recorded in 121 countries. The ones with the most species in the group:
Where to see them
Did you know…
Its bite can cause the skin to necrose; it is the most dangerous of the recluse spiders.
From Chilean Recluse
It has six eyes in three pairs rather than eight, a feature it shares with the other recluse spiders.
From Chilean Recluse
It can survive for months without food or water, which lets it persist in corners of a house that nobody disturbs for long stretches.
From Chilean Recluse
The male is so small that he can enter the female's web undetected, and waits for her to finish her final moult so as to mate while her chelicerae are still soft. Even so, many end up eaten.
From Wasp Spider
In the centre of the web it weaves a zigzag called a stabilimentum whose function is still unclear: it has been suggested that it attracts insects, that it strengthens the web, or that it warns birds off so they do not fly through and destroy it.
From Wasp Spider
Its eyes shine in the dark because of the tapetum lucidum, the same tissue that makes cats' eyes shine, even though its own eyesight is very poor.
From Wasp Spider
Faced with a threat it does not flee: it rears up on its hind legs, raises the front pair and shows their reddish inner surface in an unmistakable warning posture.
Its venom contains peptides being investigated as painkillers and for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.