Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Argiope
- Species: Argiope appensa
Other Common Names
Hawaiian Garden Spider
Author
Charles Athanase Walckenaer, 1841
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Sightings Overview
There have been 14 confirmed sightings of Argiope appensa (Hawaiian Garden Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on April 10, 2019 by Spider ID member summy. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 14 sightings because of certain Argiope appensa sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 91% of the time, Argiope appensa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 11)
- Sex: 9 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Argiope appensa has been sighted 10 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (3). Low foliage (4). High foliage (3).
Location and Range
Argiope appensa (Hawaiian Garden Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: Philippines, United States.
Argiope appensa has also been sighted in the following states: Hawaii.
Seasonality
Argiope appensa has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 1
- February: 3
- March: 3
- April: 6
- May:
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- October:
- November:
- December: 1