Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spider Neoscona domiciliorum. Arachnid. Photograph taken by the author. Copyright © 2025 Now I Wonder. All rights reserved.

Complete Guide To The Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spider

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Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spider

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How To Identify Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spiders

  • Male and female Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spiders look similar and have:
    • Dark cephalothoraxes covered in a thick covering of long, gray hair.
    • Black abdomens decorated with a wide, white, cross-shaped center band.
    • Legs that are bright red at the bases (femurs) and banded black and white towards the tips.
  • Male Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spiders look like skinny females, with smaller, thinner abdomens, and are rarely seen in the wild.
  • As with many spider species, males and females are sexually dimorphic; female Spotted Forest Orbweavers grow larger than males.
    • Females grow to 0.6 inches (1.6 cm) in total body length.
    • Males grow to 0.4 inches (0.9 cm) in total body length.

Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spider Notes

  • Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spiders are abundant in the coastal plain region of North Carolina and are also found in the Piedmont.
  • Look for these spiders in moist, forested areas, especially in flood plain forests, swamps, marshes, and along lakes and streams.
  • Female Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spiders rest heads-down in the center of their webs by both day and night, or inside folded leaves near their webs during the day (Bradley 2012).

Spotted Forest Orb Weaver Spider

  • The Spotted Forest Orb Weaver is also known as:

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Araneidae (Orbweaver spiders)

Genus

Neoscona

Species

N. domiciliorum

Binomial Name

Neoscona domiciliorum

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