Gea heptagon
(Heptagonal Orb-weaver)

Featured spider picture The spider species Gea heptagon, commonly known as Heptagonal Orb-weaver, belongs to the genus Gea, in the family Araneidae. Gea heptagon spiders have been sighted 8 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Gea heptagon includes 1 countries and 6 states in the United States. Gea heptagon is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of April.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Gea
Species: Gea heptagon

Other Common Names

Heptagonal Orb-weaver, Seven-sided Orb-weaver

Author

Hentz, 1850

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Sightings Overview

There have been 8 confirmed sightings of Gea heptagon (Heptagonal Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on October 17, 2019 by Spider ID member galvantula. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 8 sightings because of certain Gea heptagon sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 63% of the time, Gea heptagon spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 8)
Sex: 1 female and 3 male.
Environment: Gea heptagon has been sighted 5 times outdoors, and 3 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). On flower (1). Low foliage (1). Ground layer (1).