Common web-spider
The common web-spider spins a big round web and rests near the middle of it. Its colour can be dark reddish brown or pale yellow. Its legs are light with dark patches at the knees.
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Fun facts
The top of its belly has a pattern that is lighter in the middle and darker on the sides.
Under its body there is a dark shield shape with a pale yellow stripe down the middle.
A little groove on its back helps scientists tell it apart from other orb-weaving spiders.
Its close relatives live in warm places all around the world.
Most asked questions about Common web-spider
?How big is the common web-spider?
Females are up to about 11 millimetres long, and males up to about 9 millimetres.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Neoscona theisi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia, Australia and Oceania
Where the facts come from
- Neoscona theisi (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by Summerdrought. CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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