Argiope appensa
(Hawaiian Garden Spider)

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 22 confirmed sightings of Argiope appensa (Hawaiian Garden Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on July 27, 2024 by Spider ID member kevray. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 22 sightings because of certain Argiope appensa sightings reporting incomplete data.

• Web: 95% of the time, Argiope appensa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 22)
• Sex: 8 female and 1 male.
• Environment: Argiope appensa has been sighted 32 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
• Outdoors: Man-made structure (14). On flower (1). Low foliage (7). High foliage (5). Ground layer (2). Saltwater (3).

Location and Range

Argiope appensa (Hawaiian Garden Spider) has been sighted in the following countries: Indonesia, 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: 5
• March: 4
• April: 6
• May:
• June:
• July: 1
• August: 1
• September:
• October:
• November: 1
• December: 3