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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Orb Weavers (Araneidae) » Spotted Orbweavers (Neoscona) » Neoscona crucifera
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Orb Weaver? - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2015 Jocelyn Hennin

Orb Weaver? - Neoscona crucifera
Windsor, Ontario, Essex, Ontario, Canada
July 14, 2015
Size: 1"
This is the underside of a spider hanging head down in her web, under my back porch.

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Orb Weaver? - Neoscona crucifera Orb Weaver? - Neoscona crucifera
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Contributed by Jocelyn Hennin on 14 July, 2015 - 8:26pm
Last updated 19 July, 2015 - 7:34pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Laura P., 19 July, 2015 - 7:34pm login or register to post comments

Looks to be
Neoscona crucifera
… john and jane balaban, 19 July, 2015 - 3:18pm login or register to post comments

 
Neoscona crucifera
Neoscona crucifera: I looked up the latin "crucifera" thinking crucifix was part of the name and found that the name means "cross bearer". I have several pix of this weaver and its hard to spot the cross on its back but its clearer in some of the online pixs especially if you request an image of the cross bearer. Now I'm on a quest to photograph my own "cross bearer
… Richard Moore, 4 February, 2016 - 12:56am login or register to post comments

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I will add an image of what I believe is the same spider. She disappeared from umder my porch and I found her curled under the rim of a planter. I am almost certain it is the same spider.
… Jocelyn Hennin, 19 July, 2015 - 1:46pm login or register to post comments

Yes
It is an orbweaver. But without a dorsal image, this one is likely to remain unidentified beyond that.
… Chad Heins, 19 July, 2015 - 7:54am login or register to post comments

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