Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Araneus
- Species: Araneus gemmoides
Other Common Names
Cat-faced Spider, Jewel Spider, Plains Orbweaver, Ritz Cracker Spider
Author
Ralph Vary Chamberlin & Wilton Ivie, 1935
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 22 confirmed sightings of Araneus gemmoides (Cat-faced Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on October 6, 2024 by Spider ID member taylorozzo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 22 sightings because of certain Araneus gemmoides sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 50% of the time, Araneus gemmoides spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 22)
- Sex: 3 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Araneus gemmoides has been sighted 20 times outdoors, and 4 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (15). Low foliage (1). Ground layer (4).
Location and Range
Araneus gemmoides (Cat-faced Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, United States.
Araneus gemmoides has also been sighted in the following states: Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington.
Seasonality
Araneus gemmoides has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 1
- February:
- March:
- April:
- May:
- June:
- July: 1
- August: 3
- September: 3
- October: 10
- November: 2
- December: 2