Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Neoscona
Common Name (AAS
)
Spotted Orb-weavers
Author
Eugène Simon, 1864
Sightings Overview
There have been 260 confirmed sightings of Neoscona (Spotted Orb-weavers), with the most recent sighting submitted on August 23, 2020 by Spider ID member dawittrock2231. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 260 sightings because of certain Neoscona sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 80% of the time, Neoscona spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 211)
- Sex: 57 female and 10 male.
- Environment: Neoscona has been sighted 225 times outdoors, and 15 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (150). On flower (3). Low foliage (34). High foliage (22). Ground layer (4). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (3). Forest (5). Desert area (3).
Location and Range
Neoscona (Spotted Orb-weavers) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, India, Israel, Mexico, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Spain, Tokelau, United States.
Neoscona has also been sighted in the following states: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin.
Seasonality
Neoscona has been primarily sighted during the month of October.
- January: 6
- February: 6
- March: 4
- April: 8
- May: 9
- June: 13
- July: 9
- August: 40
- September: 60
- October: 85
- November: 3
- December: 7