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Species Eustala anastera - Humpbacked 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 Eustala
Species anastera (Humpbacked Orbweaver)
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
See the World Spider Catalog.
Explanation of Names
Eustala anastera (Walckenaer, 1841)
Size
5-8 mm (female), 4-6 mm (male)
Identification
E. anastera has 6 basic patterns.
Here are 3 that match Levi's drawing very well:(1)


Epigynum & scape
Range
Nova Scotia south to Florida and west to Alberta, Washington and California (2)
Print References
Howell, pp. 162-163, fig. 90 (3)
Works Cited
1.The American orb-weaver genera Cyclosa, Metazygia, and Eustala north of Mexico (Araneae, Araneidae)
Herbert W. Levi. 1977. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Vol. 148(3), 61-127.
2.The Orb-weaving Spiders of Canada and Alaska - The Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 23
Dondale, C.D., J.H. Redner, P, Paquin and H.W. Levi. 2003. NRC Research Press.
3.Spiders of the Eastern US, A Photographic Guide
W. Mike Howell and Ronald L. Jenkins. 2004. pearson education.
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 October, 2005 - 5:55pm
Additional contributions by cotinis, Lynette Elliott, Jeff Hollenbeck, cheins, Chuck Entz, Mike Quinn, kschnei
Last updated 22 January, 2023 - 8:20pm

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