Identification, Images, & Information
For Insects, Spiders & Their Kin
For the United States & Canada

Genus Mecynogea

Mecynogea Basilica Spider - Mecynogea lemniscata - female Garden spider? - Mecynogea lemniscata Basilica Orbweaver (Mecynogea lemniscata) web - Mecynogea lemniscata - female eggs maybe - Mecynogea lemniscata Chrysalis after parasite? Hung from unique Mecynogea lemniscata Basilica Orb Weaver  - Mecynogea lemniscata Basilica Orbweaver - Mecynogea lemniscata - Mecynogea lemniscata - female
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 Mecynogea
Explanation of Names
Apparently from Greek mekyno (μηυνω)- "to spin out, lengthen, prolong" + gea (γεα)- "earth"
Gender: Feminine
Numbers
Only one species in the US