🕷️Nephila pilipes
Nephila pilipes is a species of golden orb-web spider. It resides all over countries in East and Southeast Asia as well as Oceania. It is commonly found in forests and coastal areas, near surface water, and against buildings and other terrain structures. Adult females are very large, with a body length of 25 to 50 mm. Males are dwarfs, measuring only 4 to 6 mm. It is the second largest of the orb-weaving spiders apart from the recently discovered Nephila komaci. The first, second, and fourth pairs of legs of juvenile females have dense hairy brushes, but these brushes disappear as the spider matures.
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IUCN Red List assessment, 2017.
- Body mass
- not recorded
- Body length
- 0.02 m
- Shoulder height
- not recorded
- Top speed
- not recorded
- Bite force
- not recorded
- Maximum lifespan
- not recorded
Everything we know about the Nephila pilipes
Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.
Body length0.02 maverage0.01–0.04 m · range across sexesOther figures ↓Hide ↑
Species-level value synthesised as the mean of: female, male.
By sex
- Female0.04 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Spider morphometric and foraging traits; Barrion & Litsinger 1995
- Male0.01 mWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Shao et al. 2022; Barrion & Litsinger 1995
average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.
Not recorded for Nephila pilipes yet: body mass, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.
Family tree
- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyAraneidae
- ›genusNephila
- ›speciesNephila pilipes
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyNephilidae
- genusNephila
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyNephilidae
- genusNephila
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