Trichonephila clavipes, commonly known as the golden silk orb-weaver, golden silk spider, golden orb weaver spider or colloquially banana spider, is an orb-weaving spider species which inhabits forest
Golden silk orb weaver spider female
Golden silk orb weaver spider Nephila clavipes male
A female Triconephila clavipes on her web
Trichonephila is a genus of golden orb-weaver spiders that was first described by Friedrich Dahl in 1911, as a subgenus of Nephila. Trichonephila was elevated to a genus by Kuntner et al. in 2019.
Trichonephila clavipes
…Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Class: Arachnida Order: Araneae Infraorder: Araneomorphae Family: Nephilidae Genus: Trichonephila Species: T. clavipes Binomial name Trichonephila clavipes (Linnaeus, 1767) Synonyms Aranea clavipes Aranea spinimobilis Aranea longimana Epeira clavipes…
Florida Orb Web Spider Nephila Clavipes
Golden orb weaver female Maputo
Trichonephila edulis with a locust caught in its web, Queensland, Australia