Unidentified

Picture ID 188811

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Species of orb weaver

Submitted by:
maggie89
Submitted: Sep 14, 2023
Photographed: Sep 14, 2023
Spider: Unidentified
Location: Greer, South Carolina, United States
Spotted Outdoors: High foliage (includes trees and tree trunks)
Found in web?: Yes
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TakeFive

September 15, 2023 9:18 am

This is a spotted orb-weaver (Neoscona crucifera). Nice find and nice picture!

drinpoche

September 17, 2023 8:23 am

Neoscona, known as spotted orb-weavers and barn spiders, is a genus of orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae) first described by Eugène Simon in 1895 to separate these from other araneids in the now obsolete genus Epeira. They have a mostly pantropical distribution and one species, Neoscona adianta, has a palearctic distribution