Parallel-spined spiny orbweaver
The parallel-spined spiny orbweaver is a spider with a very wide, hard body and six spikes sticking out of it. It is much wider than it is long, a bit like a tiny bow tie. Most females are dark red or brown, sometimes with pale stripes.
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Fun facts
It has three pairs of spines on its body. The middle pair is the longest and strongest.
Under special ultraviolet light, the top of its body glows blue.
It looks so much like some of its cousins that even experts can mix them up.
Because it looks a bit different in different places, scientists once gave it many different names.
Most asked questions about Parallel-spined spiny orbweaver
?Where does the parallel-spined spiny orbweaver live?
In South East Asia, from southern China to Malaysia, Singapore, Borneo and Indonesia.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Gasteracantha diardi
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- Asia
Where the facts come from
- Gasteracantha diardi (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 Scott Loarie. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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