Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Araneus
Common Name (AAS
)
Angulate & Round-shouldered Orb-weavers
Author
Carl Alexander Clerck, 1757
Sightings Overview
There have been 560 confirmed sightings of Araneus (Angulate & Round-shouldered Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on January 3, 2025 by Spider ID member highvoltage. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 560 sightings because of certain Araneus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 51% of the time, Araneus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 560)
- Sex: 84 female and 26 male.
- Environment: Araneus has been sighted 590 times outdoors, and 54 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (338). On flower (9). Low foliage (74). High foliage (58). Ground layer (59). Under rock or debris (4). Freshwater river, lake, stream (5). Saltwater (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (15). Forest (27).
Location and Range
Araneus (Angulate & Round-shouldered Orb-weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Zambia.
Araneus has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Alaska, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Seasonality
Araneus has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 10
- February: 9
- March: 7
- April: 10
- May: 29
- June: 23
- July: 26
- August: 77
- September: 104
- October: 192
- November: 46
- December: 27