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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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Dagger backed Orbweaver without Flash - Neoscona crucifera
Copyright © 2008 Elliotte Rusty Harold

Dagger backed Orbweaver without Flash - Neoscona crucifera
Huntington Central Park, Huntington Beach, Orange County, California, USA
August 30, 2008
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Contributed by Elliotte Rusty Harold on 30 August, 2008 - 1:57pm
Last updated 20 September, 2008 - 4:30pm

Moved
Moved from Orb Weavers.
… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2008 - 4:30pm login or register to post comments

Looks like Neoscona
We don't know what N. utahana looks like, so maybe that's what this is. It seems too dark for arabesca.
… john and jane balaban, 30 August, 2008 - 5:38pm login or register to post comments

 
What about Neoscona crucifera
What about Neoscona crucifera? Other than the really big, black one I saw at the end, the hundred+ circular orb weavers I saw today all looked very similar.
… Elliotte Rusty Harold, 30 August, 2008 - 7:36pm login or register to post comments

 
and crucifera is in Orange Co!
see the link Lynette just posted to
… john and jane balaban, 20 September, 2008 - 4:32pm login or register to post comments

 
Maybe we'll get a spider expert
sometime who can tell us about these Neoscona. We just don't know how variable they can be. This is just so well marked that it seems unlike crucifera to us, but...???
… john and jane balaban, 30 August, 2008 - 8:33pm login or register to post comments

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