Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada
Home
» Guide »
Arthropods (Arthropoda)
»
Chelicerates (Chelicerata)
»
Arachnids (Arachnida)
»
Spiders (Araneae)
»
True Spiders (Araneomorphae)
»
Entelegynae
»
Orb Weavers (Araneidae)
»
Golden Orb-weavers (Trichonephila)
»
Jorō Spider (Trichonephila clavata)
Species
Trichonephila clavata
- Jorō Spider
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia (Animals)
Phylum
Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum
Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class
Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order
Araneae (Spiders)
Infraorder
Araneomorphae (True Spiders)
No Taxon
(Entelegynae)
Family
Araneidae (Orb Weavers)
Genus
Trichonephila
(Golden Orb-weavers)
Species
clavata
(Jorō Spider)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
(see
World Spider Catalog
)
Explanation of Names
Nephila clavata
L. Koch, 1878
Range
native to E Asia; USA: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Alabama, Oklahoma
iNaturalist
Remarks
earliest record in our area: Georgia, 2014
See Also
the native
Trichonephila clavipes
Print References
Hoebeke E.R., Huffmaster W., Freeman B.J. (2015)
Nephila clavata
L Koch, the Joro Spider of East Asia, newly recorded from North America (Araneae: Nephilidae). PeerJ 3: e763 (
Full text
)
Contributed by
John Rosenfeld
on 12 March, 2015 - 8:16pm
Additional contributions by
Phillip Harpootlian
,
cheins
,
v belov
,
Mandy Howe
,
metrioptera
,
PaleoJon
,
Nathaniel Green
Last updated 4 February, 2023 - 7:27pm