Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Araneus
- Species: Araneus marmoreus
Common Name (AAS
)
Marbled Orb-weaver
Other Common Names
Pumpkin Spider
Author
Carl Alexander Clerck, 1757
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 70 confirmed sightings of Araneus marmoreus (Marbled Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 9, 2019 by Spider ID member lynneleblanc. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 70 sightings because of certain Araneus marmoreus sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 50% of the time, Araneus marmoreus spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 64)
- Sex: 18 female and 4 male.
- Environment: Araneus marmoreus has been sighted 74 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (41). Low foliage (2). High foliage (8). Ground layer (11). Freshwater river, lake, stream (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (2). Forest (8).
Location and Range
Araneus marmoreus (Marbled Orb-weaver) has been sighted in the following countries: Canada, Hungary, United States.
Araneus marmoreus has also been sighted in the following states: Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Araneus marmoreus has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 2
- February:
- March:
- April:
- May: 1
- June:
- July: 2
- August: 7
- September: 19
- October: 35
- November: 3
- December: 1
Additional Remarks
- This species is highly variable in color and pattern (unless the different color forms turn out to be separate species altogether).