Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Argiope
- Species: Argiope aemula
Other Common Names
Oval St. Andrew's Cross Spider
Author
(Walckenaer, 1841)
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 5 confirmed sightings of Argiope aemula (Oval St. Andrew's Cross Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 24, 2019 by Spider ID member write2munish. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 5 sightings because of certain Argiope aemula sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 60% of the time, Argiope aemula spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 5)
- Sex: 0 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Argiope aemula has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (3). High foliage (1). Ground layer (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (1).
Location and Range
Argiope aemula (Oval St. Andrew's Cross Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: India, Indonesia, Philippines.
Seasonality
Argiope aemula has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January:
- February:
- March: 1
- April: 2
- May: 1
- June:
- July:
- August:
- September:
- October:
- November:
- December: 1