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.

Not Evaluated

Chilean Recluse

Loxosceles laeta

16 countries11 parks
Not Evaluated

Wasp Spider

Argiope bruennichi

45 countries152 parks
Not Evaluated

Amazonian Wandering Spider

Phoneutria fera

15 countries54 parks
Not Evaluated

Ogrefaced Spider

Deinopis spinosa

47 countries109 parks
Not Evaluated

Zebra Jumper

Salticus scenicus

54 countries9 parks
Not Evaluated

Common Stretch Spider

Tetragnatha extensa

45 countries153 parks
Not Evaluated

Water Spider

Argyroneta aquatica

57 countries139 parks
Not Evaluated

Mediterranean Social Spider

Stegodyphus lineatus

25 countries81 parks
Not Evaluated

Brown Widow

Latrodectus geometricus

7 countries11 parks
Not Evaluated

Cobweb Spider

Pholcus phalangioides

6 countries7 parks
Not Evaluated

Banana Spider

Nephila clavipes

4 countries8 parks
Not Evaluated

Huntsman Spider

Heteropoda venatoria

4 countries18 parks
Not Evaluated

Carolina Wolf Spider

Hogna carolinensis

3 countries13 parks
Not Evaluated

Redback

Latrodectus hasselti

3 countries57 parks
Not Evaluated

Flying Peacock Spider

Maratus volans

1 country9 parks
Not Evaluated

Brown Recluse

Loxosceles reclusa

1 country9 parks
Not Evaluated

Labyrinth Spider

Agelena labyrinthica

40 countries
Not Evaluated

Money Spider

Linyphia triangularis

45 countries
Not Evaluated

Striped Lynx Spider

Oxyopes lineatus

16 countries
Not Evaluated

Green Tube-web Spider

Segestria florentina

19 countries
Not Evaluated

Crested Crab Spider

Xysticus cristatus

40 countries
Not Evaluated

Raft Spider

Dolomedes fimbriatus

40 countries
Not Evaluated

Featherleg Spider

Uloborus plumipes

40 countries
Not Evaluated

Goldenrod Crab Spider

Misumena vatia

8 countries
Not Evaluated

Southern House Spider

Kukulcania hibernalis

6 countries
Not Evaluated

Joro Spider

Trichonephila clavata

6 countries

Conservation status

26 Not Evaluated

No species documented in this group is genuinely at risk according to the IUCN, with the data available today.

See the global conservation status

Where 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.

    From Amazonian Wandering Spider

  • Its venom contains peptides being investigated as painkillers and for the treatment of erectile dysfunction.

    From Amazonian Wandering Spider

Ecosystems

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