Taxonomic Hierarchy
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Class: Arachnida
- Order: Araneae
- Suborder: Araneomorphae
- Family: Araneidae
- Genus: Nephila
- Species: Nephila pilipes
Common Name (AAS
)
Giant Golden Orb-weaver
Other Common Names
Giant Golden Orb-weaver, Northern Golden Orb-weaver, Large Woodland Spider
Author
(Fabricius, 1793)
Primary Colors
Sightings Overview
There have been 17 confirmed sightings of Nephila pilipes (Giant Golden Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 28, 2019 by Spider ID member shay07. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 17 sightings because of certain Nephila pilipes sightings reporting incomplete data.
- Web: 82% of the time, Nephila pilipes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 17)
- Sex: 6 female and 0 male.
- Environment: Nephila pilipes has been sighted 27 times outdoors, and 1 times indoors.
- Outdoors: Man-made structure (2). Low foliage (8). High foliage (10). Freshwater river, lake, stream (1). Open field, pasture, grassland (1). Forest (5).
Location and Range
Nephila pilipes (Giant Golden Orb-weaver) has been sighted in the following countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
Seasonality
Nephila pilipes has been primarily sighted during the month of January.
- January: 5
- February: 2
- March: 3
- April: 1
- May: 2
- June:
- July:
- August:
- September: 1
- October: 1
- November:
- December: 2
Additional Remarks
Type species.