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title: "Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider"
description: "Pisaurina brevipes — Insecten en spinnen. Pisaurina brevipes is a species of \"nursery web spider\" that is found in the eastern half of the North American continent, from Ontario down to Florida and west to Kansas."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/straight-banded-nursery-web-spider
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider

> Pisaurina brevipes — Insecten en spinnen. Pisaurina brevipes is a species of "nursery web spider" that is found in the eastern half of the North American continent, from Ontario down to Florida and west to Kansas.

- Scientific name: *Pisaurina brevipes*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 562
- Wikidata: [Q2453348](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2453348)
- iNaturalist taxon: [153853](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/153853)

## Names

- en: Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider

## Countries with the most observations

US (450), CA (29)

## Summary

Pisaurina brevipes is a species of "nursery web spider" that is found in the eastern half of the North American continent, from Ontario down to Florida and west to Kansas.
P. brevipes is distinguished from the similar Pisaurina mira by having relatively shorter legs. The ratio of patella-tibia I length to cephalothorax length is less than 2.0 in males and less than 1.4 in females, whereas for P. mira the patella-tibia I length ratio is more than 2.0 in males and more than 1.4 in females. The edges of the abdominal band are more straight edged than in P. mira.
The natural history of P. brevipes is not well known. The…

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

## Photo

![Straight-banded Nursery Web Spider](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/straight-banded-nursery-web-spider/medium.jpg)

Photo: smokeybear33 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/314857438

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/straight-banded-nursery-web-spider?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).