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Golden Silk Orb Weaver

Nephila sp.

Photo by Latimeria
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Field Notes

Description:

Golden abdomen

Habitat:

Tropical rainforest

Notes:

The genus Nephila is the oldest surviving genus of spiders. The fossilized N. jurassica is known from Jurassic tuff dating back 165 million years, found in China.

Reference Links:

Golden silk orb-weaver

Species ID Suggestions

Comments (2)
Latimeria
Thanks, ChunXingWong. I'll update it. The only Nephila spider I knew of before was N. clavipes, but it doesn't look to be that species. I'll have to do some more searching.

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PublishedMarch 28, 2011

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