Parawixia dehaani
(Abandoned-web Orb-weaver)

Featured spider picture The spider species Parawixia dehaani, commonly known as Abandoned-web Orb-weaver, belongs to the genus Parawixia, in the family Araneidae. Parawixia dehaani spiders have been sighted 7 times by contributing members. Based on collected data, the geographic range for Parawixia dehaani includes 3 countries and 0 states in the United States. Parawixia dehaani is most often sighted outdoors, and during the month of March.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Suborder: Araneomorphae
Family: Araneidae
Genus: Parawixia
Species: Parawixia dehaani

Other Common Names

Abandoned-web Orb-weaver

Author

(Doleschall, 1859)

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Sightings Overview

There have been 7 confirmed sightings of Parawixia dehaani (Abandoned-web Orb-weaver), with the most recent sighting submitted on May 16, 2019 by Spider ID member geonyzl. The detailed statistics below may not utilize the complete dataset of 7 sightings because of certain Parawixia dehaani sightings reporting incomplete data.

Web: 71% of the time, Parawixia dehaani spiders are sighted in a spider web (Sample size: 7)
Sex: 2 female and 0 male.
Environment: Parawixia dehaani has been sighted 8 times outdoors, and 0 times indoors.
Outdoors: Man-made structure (1). Low foliage (2). Open field, pasture, grassland (1). Forest (4).