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Eriophora nephiloides
Eriophora nephiloides is a species of orb weaver in the spider family Araneidae first described in Biologia Centrali-Americana: Arachnida-Aranediea by Octavius Pickard-Cambridge in 1889. Its recognized range is from Guatemala to Guayana, but has been documented as far south as Bolivia.
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Description
Eriophora nephiloides is distinguished by a diamond-shaped abdomen with the rear subtriangle being elongated and pointed and the fore subtriangle being shorter and rounded. Its abdominal dorsum ranges in color from a reddish-brown to a distinctive bright green or yellow, and may have white spots scattered across/throughout or stripes around the edge. Its underside has a jet-black square or rectangle, which is bounded in either white or yellow. The cephalothorax and upper legs are dark yellow-brown, and the lower segments of the legs feature black and white banding.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 487192.