Cucumber green spider

Cucumber green spider
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Araneidae
Genus:	Araniella
Species:	A. cucurbitina
Binomial name
Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757)
Synonyms
Araneus cucurbitinus Aranea cucurbitina Aranea frischii Aranea octopunctata Aranea viridis-punctata Aranea depressa Epeira cucurbitina Miranda cucurbitina Araneus cossoni

The Cucumber green spider (Araniella cucurbitina) is a spider of the Araneidae family. Females grow up to 8 mm, males only up to 5 mm. The spider is mainly found on forest clearings, where it weaves its orb-web between leaves and flowers. These webs are only about 10 cm in diameter.

Spider from below

This spider does not use a hideout, because it is camouflaged by its green colour. Adult spiders first show this color in spring. Freshly hatched spiderlings are red and change to brown until fall. On the end of the abdomen there is a red mark in adults.

These spiders occur in the Palaearctic, although it can be found in parts of North America, where it was probably introduced.

Araniella opisthographa is an almost identical spider which can only be distinguished from A. cucurbitina by a microscopic investigation.^[1]

References

1. ^ The Garden Safari/Cucumber spiders

External links

• Media related to Araniella cucurbitina at Wikimedia Commons

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