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Argiope aurantia Garden Argiope Black and Yellow Garden Spider (42931973100)🕷️

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SpeciesAraneaeAraneidae
Arthropods

🕷️Argiope aurantia

Argiope aurantia Lucas, 1833

Argiope aurantia is een grote spinnensoort uit de familie van de wielwebspinnen. De spinnen hebben een opvallende geel met zwarte tekening op het achterlijf. Het kopborststuk is meestal wit. De vrouwtjes worden 19 tot 28 mm groot, de mannetjes worden 5 tot 9 mm. Het web wordt wel 2 meter in diameter en heeft een zigzaggende streep aan boven- en onderkant. Ze is te vinden in zonnige gebieden vlak bij huizen in het grootste deel van Noord- en Midden-Amerika.

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≈ 1/240,450th of your weight
Also called
black and yellow garden spider, Black-and-Yellow Argiope
Conservation status
Not evaluated

The IUCN Red List has not assessed Argiope aurantia yet.

Key measurements
Body mass
0 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Argiope aurantia

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
0 kgfield measurement
World Spider Trait Database
Other figures ↓

Herberstein et al. 2022; Greenstone & Bennett 1980

Source: World Spider Trait Database · Pekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064 · CC BY

Figures vary

  • 0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Herberstein et al. 2022; Greenstone & Bennett 1980
  • 0 kgWorld Spider Trait DatabasePekar et al. 2021, Database 2021:baab064Herberstein et al. 2022; Greenstone & Bennett 1980
Volume l
0 Laverage
Details ↓

Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Argiope aurantia yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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Family tree

  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumArthropoda
  3. ›classArachnida
  4. ›orderAraneae
  5. ›familyAraneidae
  6. ›genusArgiope
  7. ›speciesArgiope aurantia
Full lineage
  1. orderSpiders · Araneae
  2. superfamilyAraneoidea
  3. familyAraneidae
  4. genusArgiope
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumArthropoda
  3. subphylumChelicerata
  4. orderSpiders · Araneae
  5. suborderAraneomorphae
  6. superfamilyAraneoidea
  7. familyAraneidae
  8. genusArgiope
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In other languages
Zwartgele argiope (nl), Argiope aurantia (es), Argiope aurantia (fr), Zwartgele argiope (vi), Argiope aurantia (sv), Gold-Wespenspinne (de) … and 12 more languages
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