Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Eriophora
- Species: Eriophora ravilla
Other Common Names
Tropical Orb-weaver
Author
Carl Ludwig Koch, 1844
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Sightings Overview
There have been 124 confirmed sightings of Eriophora ravilla (Tropical Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on February 25, 2020 by Spider ID member aieeejo. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 124 sightings because of certain Eriophora ravilla sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 65% of the time, Eriophora ravilla spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 124)
- Sex: 20 female and 5 male.
- Environment: Eriophora ravilla has been sighted 134 times outdoors, and 8 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (79). On flower (3). Low foliage (18). High foliage (29). Ground layer (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (1). Forest (2).
Location and Range
Eriophora ravilla (Tropical Orb-weaver) has been sighted in the following countries: Bahamas, Costa Rica, Mexico, United States.
Eriophora ravilla has also been sighted in the following states: California, Florida, Louisiana, South Carolina, Texas.
Seasonality
Eriophora ravilla has been primarily sighted during the month of April.
- January: 2
- February: 12
- March: 36
- April: 45
- May: 13
- June: 2
- July: 3
- August: 3
- September:
- October: 2
- November: 3
- December: 3