Garden Spider
Argiope aurantia
Living individuals or members of this group exist today. This does not mean they are safe from extinction.
Eight-legged animals: spiders, scorpions, ticks and mites.
Classification
- Common name
- Garden Spider
- Browse group
- Arachnids
- Scientific name or taxon
- Argiope aurantia
- Taxon rank
- species
- Order
- Araneae
- Family
- Araneidae
- Genus
- Argiope
- Source classification
- Arachnida
Taxonomy checked against GBIF. For breeds and hybrids, this describes the listed parent taxon.
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The directory includes species, breeds, hybrids and broader groups. A listed scientific name may identify a parent species rather than a distinct species.
Sources
- A–Z Animals: Garden Spider · Directory entry
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