Eriophora pustulosa
(Garden Orb-weaver Spider)

Featured spider picture The spider species Eriophora pustulosa, commonly known as Garden Orb-weaver Spider, belongs to the genus Eriophora, in the family Araneidae. Eriophora pustulosa spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Eriophora pustulosa includes 1 countries and 0 states in the United States. Eriophora pustulosa is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of February.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Eriophora
Species: Eriophora pustulosa

Other Common Names

Garden Orb-weaver Spider

Author

(Walckenaer, 1841)

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Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Eriophora pustulosa (Garden Orb-weaver Spider), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 10, 2019 by Spider ID member janelost. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 8 sightings because of certain Eriophora pustulosa sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 63% of the time, Eriophora pustulosa spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
Sex: 2 female and 2 male.
Environment: Eriophora pustulosa has been sighted 7 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (5). High foliage (2).