Pretty orbweaver
The pretty orbweaver is a colourful spider from Central and South America. Its body is shaped like a diamond, and it can be reddish brown or bright green or yellow. Like other orb weavers, it spins a round web to catch insects.
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Fun facts
Its back can be reddish brown, bright green or yellow, sometimes with white spots or stripes.
Underneath it has a jet black square with a white or yellow border.
The lower parts of its legs have black and white stripes, like little socks.
It was first described in 1889 by the English spider expert Octavius Pickard-Cambridge.
Most asked questions about Pretty orbweaver
?What colour is the pretty orbweaver?
Its back can be reddish brown, bright green or yellow, and its legs have black and white bands.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Eriophora nephiloides
- Named by
- O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1889
- Group
- Spiders
- Family
- Araneidae
- Classification
- Arachnida > Araneae > Araneidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
Where the facts come from
- Eriophora nephiloides (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 Dieter Schulten. CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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