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title: "Red House Spider"
description: "Nesticodes rufipes — Insects & spiders. Nesticodes is a monotypic genus of comb-footed spiders containing only the red house spider [Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846)]."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/red-house-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Red House Spider

> Nesticodes rufipes — Insects & spiders. Nesticodes is a monotypic genus of comb-footed spiders containing only the red house spider [Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846)].

- Scientific name: *Nesticodes rufipes*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: `urban` (Towns & gardens)
- iNaturalist observations: 10679
- Wikidata: [Q1058830](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1058830)
- iNaturalist taxon: [297992](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/297992)

## Names

- en: Red House Spider
- de: Rote Hauskugelspinne
- es: Araña casera roja

## Countries with the most observations

BR (3874), IN (333), CO (304), EC (198), AU (177), AR (145), PE (139), MX (129), US (122), CR (82), PR (74), VE (64)

## Summary

Nesticodes is a monotypic genus of comb-footed spiders containing only the red house spider [Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846)]. It was first described by Allan Frost Archer in 1950, and has a pantropical distribution due to ship and air travel.

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

## Photo

![Red House Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/red-house-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: Frank Thomas Sautter · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/175093598

## Machine access

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