[1] Leucorchestris species, also known as a "dancing white lady spiders",[citation needed] are white, wandering spiders that are strictly nocturnal and live in burrows that have been dug into the desert sand.

When it is time to come out, Leucorchestris only come out for hunting, mating, and chasing other male spiders.

Males are known well for the long distances that they travel when searching for females to mate with.

When the male spiders leave their burrows to go out and search for female spiders for mating, their trips usually go as far out as 40-60 m away from their burrows and they are still able to find their way back to them without retracing the path that they took when leaving.

[citation needed] As of September 2019[update] it contains seven species, found in Africa:[1]