AnimalsSpiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts. The house spider spins a sheet-like web in quiet corners and waits in a funnel at one side. It is harmless to people and eats flies and other household insects.
Quick facts
- Scientific name
- Tegenaria domestica
- Group
- Invertebrates
- Diet
- Carnivore (eats other animals)
- Lives in
- Almost worldwide
- Habitat
- Houses and sheds
- A young one is called
- spiderling
- A group is called
- cluster
- Conservation status
- No category in our data
How it is classified
Scientists sort living things into groups within groups. Reading down, each step is a smaller group, ending with the species itself.
- Kingdom Animalia
- Phylum Arthropoda
- Class Arachnida
- Order Araneae
- Family Agelenidae
- Genus Tegenaria
- Species Tegenaria domestica
Classification follows the GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Other reference works arrange some groups differently. How classification works.
Is it in danger?
No Red List category for the house spider was found in our data source. What the categories mean.