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Araneus species - Araneus illaudatus

Araneus species - Araneus illaudatus
Gardner Canyon, Santa Rita Mts., Pima County, Arizona, USA
September 17, 2007

Moved
Moved from Cat-Faced Spider.

Moved
Moved from Araneus. ID based on image found at www.canadianarachnology.org.

Gorgeous AZ orb weaver
I'm wondering if it's a color variation of the cat-faced spider? As far as I know the choices in AZ are allani (which I have never seen), arizonensis (which doesn't look like this), chiricahua, cochise, detrimentosus, gemmoides (cat-faced mentioned above), illaudatus, mammatus, marmoreus, nordmanni, pegnia, santarita & thaddeus. Some of those can be ruled out easily, but some I've never seen before.

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