Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Argiope
Common Name (AAS
)
Garden Orb-weavers
Other Common Names
Writing Spiders
Author
Victor Audouin, 1826
Sightings Overview
There have been 345 confirmed sightings of Argiope (Garden Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 21, 2021 by Spider ID member ktw318. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 345 sightings because of certain Argiope sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 82% of the time, Argiope spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 262)
- Sex: 130 female and 15 male.
- Environment: Argiope has been sighted 289 times outdoors, and 25 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (97). On flower (11). Low foliage (114). High foliage (16). Ground layer (9). Under rock or debris (2). Freshwater river, lake, stream (7). Saltwater (3). Open field, pasture, grassland (18). Forest (9). Desert area (3).
Location and Range
Argiope (Garden Orb-weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Algeria, Argentina, Armenia, Australia, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Brazil, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Colombia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Georgia, Greece, Guatemala, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Portugal, Puerto Rico, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Vietnam, Zimbabwe.
Argiope has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Seasonality
Argiope has been primarily sighted during the month of September.
- January: 15
- February: 22
- March: 31
- April: 25
- May: 24
- June: 11
- July: 17
- August: 53
- September: 59
- October: 50
- November: 7
- December: 14