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title: "Bowl-and-doily Spider"
description: "Frontinella pyramitela — Insects & spiders. The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/bowl-and-doily-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Bowl-and-doily Spider

> Frontinella pyramitela — Insects & spiders. The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America.

- Scientific name: *Frontinella pyramitela*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Fields & meadows)
- iNaturalist observations: 10799
- Wikidata: [Q61828690](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61828690)
- iNaturalist taxon: [209810](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/209810)

## Names

- en: Bowl-and-doily Spider
- fr: Araignée naine à flancs blancs

## Countries with the most observations

US (5232), CA (421), MX (39)

## Summary

The bowl and doily spider (Frontinella pyramitela) is a species of sheet weaver found in North and Central America. It is a small spider, about 4 mm (0.16 in) long, that weaves a fairly complex and unique sheet web system consisting of an inverted dome shaped web, or "bowl," suspended above a horizontal sheet web, or "doily", hence its common name. The spider hangs from the underside of the "bowl", and bites through the web small flies, gnats and other small insects that fall down into the non-sticky webbing. The webs are commonly seen in weedy fields and in shrubs, and may often contain both a male and a female spider…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowl_and_doily_spider

## Photo

![Bowl-and-doily Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/bowl-and-doily-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kristi Zoebelein · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/371646133

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/bowl-and-doily-spider?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).