Brown recluse spider

Quality:

Brown recluse spider - spider with venomous bite native to US. This taxon is the 187^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of taxon and the 36^th most popular taxon in English Wikipedia. Article “Brown recluse spider” in English Wikipedia has 66.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 68 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 3.51 points.

This article has the best quality in Simple English Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 3626^th most popular in English Wikipedia.

The 36^th most popular in taxon in English Wikipedia.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8469^th most popular in all topics.

The 187^th most popular in taxon.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

en

The 4365^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 5638^th most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “Brown recluse spider” was edited by 2 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 8 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “Brown recluse spider”, its content was written by 611 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1056 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Brown recluse spider is on the 36^th place in local ranking of taxon in English Wikipedia and on the 187^th place in global ranking of taxon in all the time.

The article is cited 73 times in English Wikipedia and cited 224 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #2884 in June 2010
• Global: #390 in June 2002

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #790 in July 2012
• Global: #1689 in August 2024

There are 22 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Simple English (simple) Brown recluse spider		76.6461
2	English (en) Brown recluse spider		66.6985
3	Slovenian (sl) Rjavi pajek samotar		52.2902
4	Russian (ru) Loxosceles reclusa		40.7531
5	French (fr) Loxosceles reclusa		29.7394
6	Bulgarian (bg) Паяк отшелник		29.4588
7	Portuguese (pt) Loxosceles reclusa		29.3851
8	Dutch (nl) Vioolspin		28.9313
9	Swedish (sv) Loxosceles reclusa		27.0165
10	German (de) Braune Einsiedlerspinne		26.392

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brown recluse spider		23 964 501
2	French (fr) Loxosceles reclusa		1 705 064
3	German (de) Braune Einsiedlerspinne		831 833
4	Spanish (es) Loxosceles reclusa		734 186
5	Russian (ru) Loxosceles reclusa		583 894
6	Dutch (nl) Vioolspin		391 608
7	Polish (pl) Pustelnik brunatny		382 481
8	Italian (it) Loxosceles reclusa		376 108
9	Simple English (simple) Brown recluse spider		327 562
10	Japanese (ja) ドクイトグモ		274 363

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Brown recluse spider		113 329
2	French (fr) Loxosceles reclusa		18 645
3	Spanish (es) Loxosceles reclusa		7 105
4	German (de) Braune Einsiedlerspinne		6 593
5	Russian (ru) Loxosceles reclusa		5 318
6	Italian (it) Loxosceles reclusa		2 932
7	Polish (pl) Pustelnik brunatny		2 054
8	Dutch (nl) Vioolspin		2 016
9	Portuguese (pt) Loxosceles reclusa		1 836
10	Japanese (ja) ドクイトグモ		995

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Brown recluse spider		611
2	German (de) Braune Einsiedlerspinne		133
3	French (fr) Loxosceles reclusa		95
4	Russian (ru) Loxosceles reclusa		34
5	Dutch (nl) Vioolspin		29
6	Spanish (es) Loxosceles reclusa		25
7	Simple English (simple) Brown recluse spider		22
8	Arabic (ar) عنكبوت الناسك البني		12
9	Czech (cs) Koutník jedovatý		12
10	Italian (it) Loxosceles reclusa		11

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	French (fr) Loxosceles reclusa		3
2	Azerbaijani (az) Loxosceles reclusa		2
3	English (en) Brown recluse spider		2
4	Spanish (es) Loxosceles reclusa		1
5	Arabic (ar) عنكبوت الناسك البني		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Паяк отшелник		0
7	Czech (cs) Koutník jedovatý		0
8	German (de) Braune Einsiedlerspinne		0
9	Galician (gl) Loxosceles reclusa		0
10	Indonesian (id) Laba-laba pertapa cokelat		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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