Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Araneus
- Species: Araneus cingulatus
Other Common Names
Red-spotted Orb-weaver
Author
(Walckenaer, 1841)
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 5 confirmed sightings of Araneus cingulatus (Red-spotted Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on July 25, 2023 by Spider ID member jennann429. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 5 sightings because of certain Araneus cingulatus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 20% of the time, Araneus cingulatus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 5)
- Sex: 0 female and 1 male.
- Environment: Araneus cingulatus has been sighted 6 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (4). Ground layer (1). Forest (1).
Location and Range
Araneus cingulatus (Red-spotted Orb-weaver) has been sighted in the following countries: United States.
Araneus cingulatus has also been sighted in the following states: Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Araneus cingulatus has been primarily sighted during the month of August.
- January:
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- May:
- June: 1
- July: 1
- August: 3
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- December: