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Shamrock orb weaver
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- Submitted: Oct 19, 2019
- Photographed: Oct 19, 2019
- Spider: Unidentified
- Location: Danville, Indiana, United States
- Spotted Outdoors: Man-made structure (building wall, fences, etc.)
- Found in web?: Yes
- Attributes:
You’re close, she’s a Marbled Orbweaver, Araneus marmoreus. Within a genus, some of the same basic markings are shared. For these two species the leg band colors are important. A. marmoreus is red&white proximal, black &white distal. A. trifolium has white and a dark color alternating leg band markings.
Thank you! Pics appeared very similar, and I’m a newbie at this. But it was a pretty one!
https://bugguide.net/node/view/2016 You are very welcome! This is probably one of the best-looking American spiders. The link shows some of the variations in the markings. My mother doesn’t like spiders, but she found a nice crafted statuette of this species (the abdomen is a big marble) and keeps it next-to her kitchen table.