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Species Araneus bicentenarius - Giant Lichen Orbweaver

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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon (Entelegynes)
Family Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus Araneus
Species bicentenarius (Giant Lichen Orbweaver)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Sometimes misspelled as bicentarius (even here previously). bicentenarius is consistent with the The World Spider Catalogue and with the name's origins.
Explanation of Names
Latin for "of or having to do with two hundred" from bis- "twice" + centenarius- of "one hundred"
Collected by the species' author, McCook, during Philadelphia's bicentennial in 1882.
Range
AL, GA, FL, IL, IN, LA, MI, MN, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NS, NY, MA, ME, ON, PA, SC, TN, TX, VA, WI, WV (1)
Internet References
(1)Spiderlist - A list compiled by a committee of volunteer contributors of the American Arachnological Society.