Nephila pilipes
(Giant Golden Orb-weaver)

Featured spider picture The spider species Nephila pilipes, commonly known as Giant Golden Orb-weaver, belongs to the genus Nephila, in the family Araneidae. Nephila pilipes spiders have been sighted 18 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Nephila pilipes includes 11 countries and 0 states in the United States. Nephila pilipes is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of January.

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)

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Sightings Overview

There have been 18 confirmed sightings of Nephila pilipes (Giant Golden Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on December 2, 2024 by Spider ID member lizrix. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 18 sightings because of certain Nephila pilipes sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 83% of the time, Nephila pilipes spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 18)
Sex: 7 female and 0 male.
Environment: Nephila pilipes has been sighted 28 times outdoors, and 2 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (3). 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.