Velvet spider
| Velvet spiders Temporal range:
| |
|---|---|
| Female Stegodyphus dumicola | |
| Male Eresus kollari | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Eresidae C. L. Koch, 1845 |
| Diversity | |
| 9 genera, 119 species | |
| blue: reported countries (WSC) green: observation hotspots (iNaturalist) | |
Velvet spiders (family Eresidae) are a small group (about 100 species in 9 genera) of spiders almost entirely limited to the Old World, with the exception of one species known from Brazil. In Europe, some are commonly called the ladybird spiders.