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Species Mangora gibberosa - Lined Orbweaver

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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 Mangora
Species gibberosa (Lined Orbweaver)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Explanation of Names
Mangora gibberosa (Hentz, 1847)

Latin: from gibber- "hunchbacked, hump-backed" + -osus, a suffix meaning "extremely, full of"
Size
Female: Length 3.4-4.8 mm(1)
Male: Length 2.6-3.2 mm(1)
Identification
Black lines on the ventral femora of the first and second legs.


Palp

Epigynum
Range
All of the eastern United States.

Nova Scotia to North Dakota, to Colorado, to Texas, east to Florida.
Remarks
More common in fields than woods.(1)
Print References
Levi, H. W. (2005). The orb-weaver genus Mangora of Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies (Araneae: Araneidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 158(4), 139-181. (Full Text Here)

Levi, H. W., & HW, L. (1975). The American orb-weaver genera Larinia, Cercidia and Mangora north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae). (Species Description) (1)

Hentz, N. M. (1847). Descriptions and figures of the araneides of the United States. Boston Journal of Natural History 5: 443-478. (Original Description)
Internet References
Works Cited
1.The American orb-weaver genera Larinia, Cercidia and Mangora north of Mexico
H.W. Levi. 1975. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147: 100-135.